Karst
[kaʁst]
The verdict
“Karst” is uncommon German (frequency #70,441 among 55,078 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,441
- frequency rank, German
- 55,078
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Gesteinsformationen, die durch Lösung und Ausfällung des Gesteins durch Wasser geschaffen werden
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Karst |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaʁst] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #70,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Karst” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Karst is uncommon German at frequency #70,441 among 55,078 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kaʁst]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Karst, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Karst, spelled K-A-R-S-T.
Definition
- 1Gesteinsformationen, die durch Lösung und Ausfällung des Gesteins durch Wasser geschaffen werden
- 2Hacke mit zwei, drei oder mehr Zinken
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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Using “Karst”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is K-A-R-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kaʁst] (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.