Kamtschatka
[kamˈtʃatka]
The verdict
“Kamtschatka” is uncommon German (frequency #79,363 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,363
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Halbinsel zwischen Ochotskischem Meer und Beringmeer
Corpus desk
Index DE-kamtschatka · Kamtschatka · German
Kamtschatka · rank #79,363 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,363
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kapitalismusk…
Nearest frequency peer: Kapitalismuskritik (+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 „Kamtschatka“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Kalahari
Kalahari
20,642 corpus weight
- Kaltfront
Kaltfront
20,640 corpus weight
- Kamtschatka
Kamtschatka
20,638 corpus weight
- Kapitalismu…
Kapitalismuskritik
20,637 corpus weight
- Kapriolen
Kapriolen
20,636 corpus weight
- Katalogisie…
Katalogisierung
20,634 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Kamtschatka“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kamtschatka |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [kamˈtʃatka] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #79,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Kamtschatka“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Kamtschatka is uncommon German at frequency #79,363 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [kamˈtʃatka]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Kamtschatka in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Kamtschatka, spelled K-A-M-T-S-C-H-A-T-K-A.
Definition
- 1Halbinsel zwischen Ochotskischem Meer und Beringmeer
- 2Verwaltungseinheit Russlands
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kamtschatka appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Kamtschatka ist das bärenreichste Gebiet der Erde. “
„Die Region Kamtschatka […] ist ein Föderationssubjekt Russlands, das am 1. Juli 2007 durch Zusammenschluss der beiden Subjekte Oblast Kamtschatka (171.266 km²) und Autonomer Kreis der Korjaken (293.899 km²) gebildet wurde.“
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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