worm
[wɜːm]
The verdict
“worm” is uncommon German (frequency #69,909 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,909
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wurm
Corpus desk
Index DE-worm · worm · German
worm · rank #69,909 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,909
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Wolkenstein
Nearest frequency peer: Wolkenstein (-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 „worm“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Wittstock
Wittstock
30,095 corpus weight
- Wohnstätte
Wohnstätte
30,094 corpus weight
- Wolkenstein
Wolkenstein
30,093 corpus weight
- worm
worm
30,092 corpus weight
- worry
worry
30,091 corpus weight
- wählbaren
wählbaren
30,090 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „worm“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | worm |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [wɜːm] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,909 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „worm“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
worm is uncommon German at frequency #69,909 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [wɜːm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for worm in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is worm, spelled W-O-R-M.
Definition
- 1Wurm
- 2Schneckengewinde
- 3kriecherischer, verachtenswerter Mensch
- 4Schlange
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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