fraulein
/fɹɔɪlaɪn/
"fraulein" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fraulein” is uncommon English (frequency #97,045 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,045
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A young German woman.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fraulein · fraulein · English
fraulein · rank #97,045 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,045
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH foxtail
Nearest frequency peer: foxtail (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “fraulein”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- fording
fording
2,962 corpus weight
- foxtail
foxtail
2,957 corpus weight
- fraulein
fraulein
2,956 corpus weight
- fretless
fretless
2,954 corpus weight
- fullerene
fullerene
2,952 corpus weight
- Galashiels
Galashiels
2,948 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “fraulein” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fraulein |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fɹɔɪlaɪn/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,045 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fraulein” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fraulein is uncommon English at frequency #97,045 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /fɹɔɪlaɪn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A young German woman.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fraulein, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from German Fräulein. The correct English form is fraulein, spelled F-R-A-U-L-E-I-N.
Definition
- 1A young German woman.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fraulein appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Waiters are in button-downs, and waitresses wear full-on fraulein garb.
Etymology
Borrowed from German Fräulein.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).