Arrestant
[aʁɛsˈtant]
The verdict
“Arrestant” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Person, die sich im Arrest befindet
Corpus desk
Index DE-arrestant · Arrestant · German
Arrestant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 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 | Arrestant |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aʁɛsˈtant] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Arrestant“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Arrestant is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [aʁɛsˈtant]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Arrestant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Gefängnisseelsorger Hans-Jürgen Springer erzählte eindrücklich von seinen Besuchen bei den jungen Arrestanten.“
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.