Einzelkind
[ˈaɪ̯nt͡sl̩ˌkɪnt]
The verdict
“Einzelkind” is uncommon German (frequency #56,079 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,079
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kind oder Jugendlicher ohne Geschwister
Corpus desk
Index DE-einzelkind · Einzelkind · German
Einzelkind · rank #56,079 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,079
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH einstündigen
Nearest frequency peer: einstündigen (-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 „Einzelkind“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- einleitet
einleitet
43,925 corpus weight
- einrücken
einrücken
43,924 corpus weight
- einstündigen
einstündigen
43,923 corpus weight
- Einzelkind
Einzelkind
43,922 corpus weight
- einzuberufen
einzuberufen
43,921 corpus weight
- Eiter
Eiter
43,920 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Einzelkind“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Einzelkind |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaɪ̯nt͡sl̩ˌkɪnt] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #56,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Einzelkind“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Einzelkind is uncommon German at frequency #56,079 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈaɪ̯nt͡sl̩ˌkɪnt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Kind oder Jugendlicher ohne Geschwister".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Einzelkind, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Einzelkind, spelled E-I-N-Z-E-L-K-I-N-D.
Definition
- 1Kind oder Jugendlicher ohne Geschwister
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Einzelkind appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ich habe überhaupt keine Geschwister, ich bin Einzelkind.“
„Mag sein: Mein Leben als Einzelkind und der spärliche Umgang mit Gleichaltrigen haben mich zum Sonderling und Grübler gemacht.“
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Antonyms
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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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