Kiev
[ˈkijɛf]
The verdict
“Kiev” is uncommon German (frequency #65,407 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,407
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hauptstadt der Ukraine
Corpus desk
Index DE-kiev · Kiev · German
Kiev · rank #65,407 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,407
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH kindgerecht
Nearest frequency peer: kindgerecht (+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 „Kiev“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Kernkraftwe…
Kernkraftwerken
34,597 corpus weight
- Kettensägen
Kettensägen
34,596 corpus weight
- Kiev
Kiev
34,594 corpus weight
- kindgerecht
kindgerecht
34,593 corpus weight
- Kirchenjahr
Kirchenjahr
34,592 corpus weight
- KKW
KKW
34,591 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Kiev“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kiev |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈkijɛf] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #65,407 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Kiev“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Kiev is uncommon German at frequency #65,407 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈkijɛf]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hauptstadt der Ukraine".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Kiev, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Kiev, spelled K-I-E-V.
Definition
- 1Hauptstadt der Ukraine
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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