Kamikaze
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#52,193
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Kamikaze is aGermannoun. It means: japanischer Flieger im Zweiten Weltkrieg, der selbstmörderische Einsätze flog Pronounced [ˌkamiˈkaːt͡sə].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kamikaze |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌkamiˈkaːt͡sə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,193 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Kamikaze is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌkamiˈkaːt͡sə]. Corpus data places it at rank #52,193 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Kamikaze in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Kamikaze, spelled K-A-M-I-K-A-Z-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1japanischer Flieger im Zweiten Weltkrieg, der selbstmörderische Einsätze flog
- 2jemand, der sehenden Auges ins Verderben rennt, eine Aktion unternimmt, die höchstwahrscheinlich im Gefängnis, im Krankenhaus oder in der Pleite endet
- 3ein Cocktail aus Wodka, Orangenlikör und Limettensaft
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Frequency rank: #52,193 in German
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