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Kantonist

German, noun

Kantonist is spelled K-A-N-T-O-N-I-S-T (9 letters) and appears about once in every 62 million words in written German, the 482,822nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kantonist is a German masculine noun meaning “cantonist” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does Kantonist mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinecantonist

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of Kantonist

  • Kantonisten genitive

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is Kantonist in German?

Kantonist appears about once in every 62 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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