Charakterzug
[kaˈʁaktɐˌt͡suːk]
The verdict
“Charakterzug” is uncommon German (frequency #90,090 among 20,081 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,090
- frequency rank, German
- 20,081
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine bestimmte Eigenschaft/ein bestimmtes Merkmal eines Charakters
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Charakterzug |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈʁaktɐˌt͡suːk] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #90,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Charakterzug” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Charakterzug is uncommon German at frequency #90,090 among 20,081 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kaˈʁaktɐˌt͡suːk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine bestimmte Eigenschaft/ein bestimmtes Merkmal eines Charakters".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Charakterzug, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Charakterzug, spelled C-H-A-R-A-K-T-E-R-Z-U-G.
Definition
- 1eine bestimmte Eigenschaft/ein bestimmtes Merkmal eines Charakters
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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Using “Charakterzug”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is C-H-A-R-A-K-T-E-R-Z-U-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kaˈʁaktɐˌt͡suːk] (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.