Arrestant
[aʁɛsˈtant]
The verdict
“Arrestant” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine Person, die sich im Arrest befindet
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Arrestant |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aʁɛsˈtant] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Arrestant” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Arrestant is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aʁɛsˈtant]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "eine Person, die sich im Arrest befindet".
Arrestant has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Arrestant, spelled A-R-R-E-S-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1eine Person, die sich im Arrest befindet
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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.
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Using “Arrestant”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-R-R-E-S-T-A-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [aʁɛsˈtant] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.