Diebstählen
[ˈdiːpʃtɛːlən]
The verdict
“Diebstählen” is uncommon German (frequency #68,131 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,131
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dativ Plural des Substantivs Diebstahl
Corpus desk
Index DE-diebstahlen · Diebstählen · German
Diebstählen · rank #68,131 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,131
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Diashow
Nearest frequency peer: Diashow (-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 „Diebstählen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Depesche
Depesche
31,874 corpus weight
- deutlichere
deutlichere
31,872 corpus weight
- Diashow
Diashow
31,871 corpus weight
- Diebstählen
Diebstählen
31,870 corpus weight
- Diktion
Diktion
31,868 corpus weight
- dinar
dinar
31,867 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Diebstählen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Diebstählen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈdiːpʃtɛːlən] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #68,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Diebstählen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Diebstählen is uncommon German at frequency #68,131 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈdiːpʃtɛːlən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dativ Plural des Substantivs Diebstahl".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Diebstählen, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Diebstählen, spelled D-I-E-B-S-T-Ä-H-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1Dativ Plural des Substantivs Diebstahl
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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