Windstille
[ˈvɪntˌʃtɪlə]
The verdict
“Windstille” is uncommon German (frequency #67,893 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,893
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Abwesenheit von Wind; das Fehlen jeglichen Windes
Corpus desk
Index DE-windstille · Windstille · German
Windstille · rank #67,893 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,893
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH windigen
Nearest frequency peer: windigen (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Windstille“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Wichita
Wichita
32,112 corpus weight
- widerwärtige
widerwärtige
32,111 corpus weight
- Willkommens
Willkommens
32,110 corpus weight
- windigen
windigen
32,109 corpus weight
- Windstille
Windstille
32,108 corpus weight
- zahlungsunf…
zahlungsunfähig
32,104 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Windstille“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Windstille |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvɪntˌʃtɪlə] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Windstille“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Windstille is uncommon German at frequency #67,893 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈvɪntˌʃtɪlə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "die Abwesenheit von Wind; das Fehlen jeglichen Windes".
No misspelling variants are generated for Windstille in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Windstille, spelled W-I-N-D-S-T-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1die Abwesenheit von Wind; das Fehlen jeglichen Windes
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Windstille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gestern herrschte völlige Windstille, sehr zum Ärger der Segler.
„Bei anhaltender Windstille und ohne alle Temperatur- und Dichteänderungen bzw. die globale Zirkulation würde der Meeresspiegel genau mit der theoretischen Niveaufläche des Geoids zusammenfallen.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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