Kerls
[kɛʁls]
The verdict
“Kerls” is uncommon German (frequency #67,382 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,382
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Kerl
Corpus desk
Index DE-kerls · Kerls · German
Kerls · rank #67,382 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,382
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH kentern
Nearest frequency peer: kentern (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Kerls”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Karambolage
Karambolage
32,622 corpus weight
- Kelter
Kelter
32,621 corpus weight
- kentern
kentern
32,620 corpus weight
- Kerls
Kerls
32,619 corpus weight
- KGV
KGV
32,618 corpus weight
- kicks
kicks
32,617 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Kerls” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kerls |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kɛʁls] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Kerls” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
Kerls is uncommon German at frequency #67,382 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kɛʁls]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Kerl".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Kerls, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Kerls, spelled K-E-R-L-S.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Kerl
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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