Heilkunst
[ˈhaɪ̯lˌkʊnst]
The verdict
“Heilkunst” is uncommon German (frequency #71,439 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,439
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gesamtheit der menschlichen (insbesondere ärztlichen) Kenntnisse und Fähigkeiten, Krankheiten zu heilen, zu lindern und vorzubeugen
Corpus desk
Index DE-heilkunst · Heilkunst · German
Heilkunst · rank #71,439 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,439
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH healing
Nearest frequency peer: healing (-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 „Heilkunst“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- hauptverant…
hauptverantwortlich
28,565 corpus weight
- healing
healing
28,563 corpus weight
- Heilkunst
Heilkunst
28,562 corpus weight
- Hereingabe
Hereingabe
28,560 corpus weight
- hervorrief
hervorrief
28,559 corpus weight
- herzhafte
herzhafte
28,558 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Heilkunst“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Heilkunst |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhaɪ̯lˌkʊnst] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Heilkunst“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Heilkunst is uncommon German at frequency #71,439 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈhaɪ̯lˌkʊnst]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gesamtheit der menschlichen (insbesondere ärztlichen) Kenntnisse und Fähigkeiten, Krankheiten zu heilen, zu lindern und vorzubeugen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Heilkunst, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Heilkunst, spelled H-E-I-L-K-U-N-S-T.
Definition
- 1Gesamtheit der menschlichen (insbesondere ärztlichen) Kenntnisse und Fähigkeiten, Krankheiten zu heilen, zu lindern und vorzubeugen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Heilkunst appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Es begann mir zu dämmern, daß die Heilkunst durchaus nicht das war, was die Leute sich darunter vorstellten, sondern daß sie etwas sehr Einfaches, tatsächlich zu Einfaches für den gewöhnlichen Verstand war, um sie zu begreifen.“
„Das war keine Heilkunst, eine schlechte Ablenkung war das, weil der Arzt nicht weiterwusste.“
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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