Kieselsteine
[ˈkiːzl̩ˌʃtaɪ̯nə]
The verdict
“Kieselsteine” is uncommon German (frequency #86,681 among 55,078 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,681
- frequency rank, German
- 55,078
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Variante für den Dativ Singular des Substantivs Kieselstein
Corpus desk
Index DE-kieselsteine · Kieselsteine · German
Kieselsteine · rank #86,681 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,681
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 55,078
- PHOTO-FINISH keuchend
Nearest frequency peer: keuchend (-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 “Kieselsteine”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- keltern
keltern
13,324 corpus weight
- Kennzeichnu…
Kennzeichnungen
13,323 corpus weight
- keuchend
keuchend
13,321 corpus weight
- Kieselsteine
Kieselsteine
13,320 corpus weight
- Kinderbett
Kinderbett
13,319 corpus weight
- Kindeswohlg…
Kindeswohlgefährdung
13,317 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Kieselsteine” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kieselsteine |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkiːzl̩ˌʃtaɪ̯nə] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #86,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Kieselsteine” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Kieselsteine is uncommon German at frequency #86,681 among 55,078 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkiːzl̩ˌʃtaɪ̯nə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Kieselsteine, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 Kieselsteine, spelled K-I-E-S-E-L-S-T-E-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Variante für den Dativ Singular des Substantivs Kieselstein
- 2Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Kieselstein
- 3Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Kieselstein
- 4Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Kieselstein
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.