Geheimniskrämerei
[ɡəˌhaɪ̯mnɪskʁɛːməˈʁaɪ̯]
The verdict
“Geheimniskrämerei” is uncommon German (frequency #84,004 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,004
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Verhalten, das vermuten lässt, dass jemand etwas heimlich tun (geheim halten, ein Geheimnis wahren) möchte
Corpus desk
Index DE-geheimniskramerei · Geheimniskrämerei · German
Geheimniskrämerei · rank #84,004 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,004
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH geheimsten
Nearest frequency peer: geheimsten (+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 „Geheimniskrämerei“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- gebuchte
gebuchte
16,001 corpus weight
- Geburtenkon…
Geburtenkontrolle
16,000 corpus weight
- geeicht
geeicht
15,999 corpus weight
- Geheimniskr…
Geheimniskrämerei
15,997 corpus weight
- geheimsten
geheimsten
15,996 corpus weight
- geimpften
geimpften
15,993 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Geheimniskrämerei“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Geheimniskrämerei |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˌhaɪ̯mnɪskʁɛːməˈʁaɪ̯] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Frequency rank | #84,004 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Geheimniskrämerei“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Geheimniskrämerei is uncommon German at frequency #84,004 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɡəˌhaɪ̯mnɪskʁɛːməˈʁaɪ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Verhalten, das vermuten lässt, dass jemand etwas heimlich tun (geheim halten, ein Geheimnis wahren) möchte".
Geheimniskrämerei doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Geheimniskrämerei, spelled G-E-H-E-I-M-N-I-S-K-R-Ä-M-E-R-E-I.
Definition
- 1Verhalten, das vermuten lässt, dass jemand etwas heimlich tun (geheim halten, ein Geheimnis wahren) möchte
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Geheimniskrämerei appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Was soll denn diese Geheimniskrämerei!“
Ich sah, wie er mit Britton hastig ein paar Sätze austauschte. Sie flüsterten dabei. Mir erschien diese Geheimniskrämerei nicht ganz geheuer.
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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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