accident
[ˈæksɪdənt]
The verdict
“accident” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unfall
Corpus desk
Index DE-accident · accident · German
accident · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accident |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈæksɪdənt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „accident“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
accident is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈæksɪdənt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for accident, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is accident, spelled A-C-C-I-D-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Unfall
- 2Zufall
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how accident appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sorry, I'm late; but there was an accident.
He hit him by accident.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.