Kettchen

[ˈkɛtçən]

/[ˈkɛtçən]/ noun

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The verdict

“Kettchen” is uncommon German (frequency #98,681 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#98,681
frequency rank, German
4,158
“K” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Schmuckstück in der Form einer kleinen Kette

Corpus desk

Index DE-kettchen · Kettchen · German

Kettchen · rank #98,681 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #98,681
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,158
  • PHOTO-FINISH Kernspintomog…

Nearest frequency peer: Kernspintomographie (-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 „Kettchen“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Kettchen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Kettchen
PropertyValue
HeadwordKettchen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈkɛtçən]
Letters8
Frequency rank#98,681
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Kettchen“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).Kettchenfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Kernspintomographie“ (#98,680), „Kerbholz“ (#98,679), „kinderfreundlich“ (#98,683). Unter 4,158 „K“-Lemmata liegt „Kettchen“ bei #98,681. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Kettchen is uncommon German at frequency #98,681 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkɛtçən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Schmuckstück in der Form einer kleinen Kette".

Kettchen doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No borrowing history is documented 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 Kettchen, spelled K-E-T-T-C-H-E-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Schmuckstück in der Form einer kleinen Kette

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Kettchen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Sie trägt ein silbernes Kettchen.“
  2. „Ich untersuchte aufmerksam ihre beiden reich gearbeiteten Uhren und die schönen, an Kettchen angehängten, juwelengeschmückten Petschafte.“

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Kettchen"?
"Kettchen" is spelled K-E-T-T-C-H-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈkɛtçən].
What does "Kettchen" mean?
As a noun, "Kettchen" means: Schmuckstück in der Form einer kleinen Kette
How do you pronounce "Kettchen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Kettchen" is [ˈkɛtçən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Kettchen" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Kettchen", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Kerbholz#98,679Klausner#98,690jeopardy#98,651laughing#98,742

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list