kall
[kal]
The verdict
“kall” is uncommon German (frequency #69,401 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,401
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine niedrige Temperatur habend; kalt
Corpus desk
Index DE-kall · kall · German
kall · rank #69,401 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,401
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kajüte
Nearest frequency peer: Kajüte (-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 „kall“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Kachelofen
Kachelofen
30,603 corpus weight
- Kais
Kais
30,602 corpus weight
- Kajüte
Kajüte
30,601 corpus weight
- kall
kall
30,600 corpus weight
- Kammerjäger
Kammerjäger
30,599 corpus weight
- Kanaken
Kanaken
30,598 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „kall“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kall |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [kal] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,401 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „kall“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
kall is uncommon German at frequency #69,401 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [kal]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine niedrige Temperatur habend; kalt".
kall doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is kall, spelled K-A-L-L.
Definition
- 1eine niedrige Temperatur habend; kalt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kall appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Det är kallt ute.
This word in other languages
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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