Kaltfront
[ˈkaltˌfʁɔnt]
The verdict
“Kaltfront” is uncommon German (frequency #79,361 among 55,078 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,361
- frequency rank, German
- 55,078
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - vorderste Linie einer Zone kälterer Luft in einem Tiefdrucksystem
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kaltfront |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaltˌfʁɔnt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Kaltfront” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Kaltfront is uncommon German at frequency #79,361 among 55,078 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkaltˌfʁɔnt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "vorderste Linie einer Zone kälterer Luft in einem Tiefdrucksystem".
No misspelling variants are generated for Kaltfront 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Kaltfront, spelled K-A-L-T-F-R-O-N-T.
Definition
- 1vorderste Linie einer Zone kälterer Luft in einem Tiefdrucksystem
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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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Using “Kaltfront”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is K-A-L-T-F-R-O-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈkaltˌfʁɔnt] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.