Wohlfahrtspflege
[ˈvoːlfaːɐ̯t͡sˌp͡fleːɡə]
The verdict
“Wohlfahrtspflege” is uncommon German (frequency #61,206 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,206
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gesamtheit aller Maßnahmen, sowohl öffentliche als auch private, die der Unterstützung von bedürftigen Menschen dient
Corpus desk
Index DE-wohlfahrtspflege · Wohlfahrtspflege · German
Wohlfahrtspflege · rank #61,206 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,206
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Wochenbeginn
Nearest frequency peer: Wochenbeginn (-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 „Wohlfahrtspflege“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Wildkatze
Wildkatze
38,800 corpus weight
- wischte
wischte
38,799 corpus weight
- Wissenschaf…
Wissenschaftsgeschichte
38,798 corpus weight
- Wochenbeginn
Wochenbeginn
38,796 corpus weight
- Wohlfahrtsp…
Wohlfahrtspflege
38,795 corpus weight
- Wohnmobile
Wohnmobile
38,794 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Wohlfahrtspflege“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wohlfahrtspflege |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvoːlfaːɐ̯t͡sˌp͡fleːɡə] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Frequency rank | #61,206 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Wohlfahrtspflege“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Wohlfahrtspflege is uncommon German at frequency #61,206 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈvoːlfaːɐ̯t͡sˌp͡fleːɡə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gesamtheit aller Maßnahmen, sowohl öffentliche als auch private, die der Unterstützung von bedürftigen Menschen dient".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Wohlfahrtspflege, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Wohlfahrtspflege, spelled W-O-H-L-F-A-H-R-T-S-P-F-L-E-G-E.
Definition
- 1Gesamtheit aller Maßnahmen, sowohl öffentliche als auch private, die der Unterstützung von bedürftigen Menschen dient
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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