Christbaum
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#57,752
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Christbaum is aGermannoun. It means: festlich (mit Figuren, Kerzen und/oder Lichterketten, Kugeln, Lametta, Sternen und dergleichen) geschmückter Nadelbaum (zumeist Tanne, Fichte oder Kiefer), der zur Weihnachtszeit in Wohnzimmern, Bü... Pronounced [ˈkʁɪstˌbaʊ̯m].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Christbaum |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkʁɪstˌbaʊ̯m] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,752 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Christbaum is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkʁɪstˌbaʊ̯m]. Corpus data places it at rank #57,752 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Christbaum in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Christbaum, spelled C-H-R-I-S-T-B-A-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1festlich (mit Figuren, Kerzen und/oder Lichterketten, Kugeln, Lametta, Sternen und dergleichen) geschmückter Nadelbaum (zumeist Tanne, Fichte oder Kiefer), der zur Weihnachtszeit in Wohnzimmern, Büroräumen oder in Vorgärten und auf öffentlichen Plätzen aufgestellt wird
- 2zur Markierung von Angriffsgebieten eines Bombers (während des Zweiten Weltkriegs) verwendetes Leuchtsignal
- 3jemand, der eine reichdekorierte Uniform trägt
- 4jemand, der in der militärischen Rangstufe einen der Dienstgrade zwischen Leutnant und General innehat
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #57,752 in German
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