Autist
[aʊ̯ˈtɪst]
The verdict
“Autist” is uncommon German (frequency #59,464 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,464
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (männliche^☆) Person mit Autismus
Corpus desk
Index DE-autist · Autist · German
Autist · rank #59,464 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,464
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH auszupacken
Nearest frequency peer: auszupacken (-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 „Autist“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Ausscheidun…
Ausscheidungen
40,540 corpus weight
- aussichtslo…
aussichtslosen
40,539 corpus weight
- auszupacken
auszupacken
40,538 corpus weight
- Autist
Autist
40,537 corpus weight
- autumn
autumn
40,536 corpus weight
- Bahntrasse
Bahntrasse
40,534 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Autist“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Autist |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aʊ̯ˈtɪst] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Autist“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Autist is uncommon German at frequency #59,464 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [aʊ̯ˈtɪst]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(männliche^☆) Person mit Autismus".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Autist, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Autist, spelled A-U-T-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1(männliche^☆) Person mit Autismus
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Autist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Beim Asperger-Typ hingegen hängt die soziale Eingliederungsfähigkeit im wesentlichen von der Intelligenz und von der Bereitschaft der Umgebung ab, dem jungen Autisten eine Ausbildung bzw. Tätigkeit zu überlassen, die seinen speziellen Fähigkeiten angemessen ist und ihn befriedigt.“
„Zwar sind etwa die Hälfte der Menschen mit Inselbegabung Autisten, umgekehrt ist aber nur ein kleiner Teil der Autisten inselbegabt.“
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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