Keuschheit
[ˈkɔɪ̯ʃhaɪ̯t]
The verdict
“Keuschheit” is uncommon German (frequency #51,455 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,455
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bewusster Verzicht auf sexuelle Aktivität aus moralischen oder religiösen Gründen
Corpus desk
Index DE-keuschheit · Keuschheit · German
Keuschheit · rank #51,455 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,455
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kensington
Nearest frequency peer: Kensington (-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 „Keuschheit“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Katalogen
Katalogen
48,549 corpus weight
- keen
keen
48,548 corpus weight
- Kensington
Kensington
48,547 corpus weight
- Keuschheit
Keuschheit
48,546 corpus weight
- Kiemen
Kiemen
48,545 corpus weight
- Kirchenraum
Kirchenraum
48,543 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Keuschheit“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Keuschheit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɔɪ̯ʃhaɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Keuschheit“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Keuschheit is uncommon German at frequency #51,455 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkɔɪ̯ʃhaɪ̯t]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "bewusster Verzicht auf sexuelle Aktivität aus moralischen oder religiösen Gründen".
Keuschheit has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Keuschheit, spelled K-E-U-S-C-H-H-E-I-T.
Definition
- 1bewusster Verzicht auf sexuelle Aktivität aus moralischen oder religiösen Gründen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Keuschheit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bei der Aufnahme in einen Orden geloben Mönche und Nonnen Gehorsam, Armut und Keuschheit.
„Die einzige Ausnahme scheint der Gouverneur selbst gewesen zu sein - doch das mag an Lücken in den Aufzeichnungen liegen, nicht daran, dass man im Gouverneurspalast der Keuschheit frönte.“
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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