zwölfmal
[ˈt͡svœlfmaːl]
The verdict
“zwölfmal” is uncommon German (frequency #83,589 among 1,996 “Z” headwords), classed as a numeral. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,589
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zwölf Male; elfmal und ein weiteres Mal
Corpus desk
Index DE-zwolfmal · zwölfmal · German
zwölfmal · rank #83,589 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,589
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH Zwischentöne
Nearest frequency peer: Zwischentöne (-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 „zwölfmal“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Zwickel
Zwickel
16,415 corpus weight
- zwicken
zwicken
16,414 corpus weight
- Zwischentöne
Zwischentöne
16,413 corpus weight
- zwölfmal
zwölfmal
16,412 corpus weight
- zypressen
zypressen
16,411 corpus weight
- zünftige
zünftige
16,410 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „zwölfmal“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zwölfmal |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | [ˈt͡svœlfmaːl] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „zwölfmal“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
zwölfmal is uncommon German at frequency #83,589 among 1,996 “Z” headwords, classed as anumeral, transcribed [ˈt͡svœlfmaːl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "zwölf Male; elfmal und ein weiteres Mal".
zwölfmal has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is zwölfmal, spelled Z-W-Ö-L-F-M-A-L.
Definition
- 1zwölf Male; elfmal und ein weiteres Mal
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how zwölfmal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Uganda hat seit 1956 zwölfmal an Olympischen Spielen teilgenommen.“
Zwölfmal haben Chirurgen der Helios-Kliniken im vergangenen Jahr bei Operationen Dinge im Körper eines Patienten zurückgelassen, die dort nicht hingehören: Bohrerspitzen, Kompressen, Schlauchstücke, Tupfer.
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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