Eishockeyspieler
[ˈaɪ̯shɔkeˌʃpiːlɐ]
The verdict
“Eishockeyspieler” is uncommon German (frequency #85,171 among 57,060 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,171
- frequency rank, German
- 57,060
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Person, die die Sportart Eishockey ausübt
Corpus desk
Index DE-eishockeyspieler · Eishockeyspieler · German
Eishockeyspieler · rank #85,171 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,171
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 57,060
- PHOTO-FINISH Eisberge
Nearest frequency peer: Eisberge (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Eishockeyspieler”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Eisberge
Eisberge
14,831 corpus weight
- Eishockeysp…
Eishockeyspieler
14,830 corpus weight
- Eiswürfeln
Eiswürfeln
14,829 corpus weight
- EKZ
EKZ
14,828 corpus weight
- elektronisc…
elektronischem
14,827 corpus weight
- emittieren
emittieren
14,826 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Eishockeyspieler” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Eishockeyspieler |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaɪ̯shɔkeˌʃpiːlɐ] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Frequency rank | #85,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Eishockeyspieler” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Eishockeyspieler is uncommon German at frequency #85,171 among 57,060 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈaɪ̯shɔkeˌʃpiːlɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Person, die die Sportart Eishockey ausübt".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Eishockeyspieler in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct German form is Eishockeyspieler, spelled E-I-S-H-O-C-K-E-Y-S-P-I-E-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Person, die die Sportart Eishockey ausübt
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Eishockeyspieler", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 16 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.