Blackjack
[ˈblɛkˌd͡ʒɛk]
The verdict
“Blackjack” is uncommon German (frequency #52,702 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,702
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in den USA entwickelte Variante des Kartenspiels Siebzehn und Vier
Corpus desk
Index DE-blackjack · Blackjack · German
Blackjack · rank #52,702 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,702
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Birma
Nearest frequency peer: Birma (-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 „Blackjack“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Bilduntersc…
Bildunterschrift
47,302 corpus weight
- Biogasanlag…
Biogasanlagen
47,301 corpus weight
- Birma
Birma
47,300 corpus weight
- Blackjack
Blackjack
47,299 corpus weight
- Bluttat
Bluttat
47,298 corpus weight
- bonnet
bonnet
47,297 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Blackjack“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Blackjack |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈblɛkˌd͡ʒɛk] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Blackjack“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Blackjack is uncommon German at frequency #52,702 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈblɛkˌd͡ʒɛk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "in den USA entwickelte Variante des Kartenspiels Siebzehn und Vier".
Blackjack has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Blackjack, spelled B-L-A-C-K-J-A-C-K.
Definition
- 1in den USA entwickelte Variante des Kartenspiels Siebzehn und Vier
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Blackjack appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Beim Blackjack geht es darum, mehr Punkte als die Bank zu erreichen, maximal 21, in Deutschland kennt man das Spiel unter dem Namen 17 und 4. Hat man mehr als 21 Punkte, hat man sich überkauft.“
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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