Zugluft
[ˈt͡suːkˌlʊft]
The verdict
“Zugluft” is uncommon German (frequency #63,969 among 1,996 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,969
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - als unangenehm empfundene Luftbewegung
Corpus desk
Index DE-zugluft · Zugluft · German
Zugluft · rank #63,969 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,969
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH zugeschüttet
Nearest frequency peer: zugeschüttet (-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 „Zugluft“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- zugeschnitt…
zugeschnittene
36,034 corpus weight
- zugeschüttet
zugeschüttet
36,033 corpus weight
- Zugluft
Zugluft
36,032 corpus weight
- Zukunftsmus…
Zukunftsmusik
36,031 corpus weight
- zurufen
zurufen
36,030 corpus weight
- zurückgetre…
zurückgetretenen
36,029 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Zugluft“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zugluft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡suːkˌlʊft] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,969 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Zugluft“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Zugluft is uncommon German at frequency #63,969 among 1,996 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈt͡suːkˌlʊft]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "als unangenehm empfundene Luftbewegung".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Zugluft in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Zugluft, spelled Z-U-G-L-U-F-T.
Definition
- 1als unangenehm empfundene Luftbewegung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Zugluft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In der Zugluft bekomme ich leicht Kopfweh.
„Weil durch das Öffnen der Tür Zugluft sich in den dicken Brokatvorhängen verfängt, dringt Essensgeruch vom gegenüberliegenden Gasthaus nach innen.“
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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