Klei
[klaɪ̯]
The verdict
“Klei” is uncommon German (frequency #70,463 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,463
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - norddeutsch, auch Bodenkunde: der schwere, lehmige, fette, bindige Boden der Marsch
Corpus desk
Index DE-klei · Klei · German
Klei · rank #70,463 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,463
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Klause
Nearest frequency peer: Klause (-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 „Klei“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Klappentext
Klappentext
29,541 corpus weight
- Klassenzimm…
Klassenzimmern
29,540 corpus weight
- Klause
Klause
29,539 corpus weight
- Klei
Klei
29,538 corpus weight
- Kleiderbügel
Kleiderbügel
29,537 corpus weight
- Kleinstädten
Kleinstädten
29,536 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Klei“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Klei |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [klaɪ̯] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #70,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Klei“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Klei is uncommon German at frequency #70,463 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [klaɪ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "norddeutsch, auch Bodenkunde: der schwere, lehmige, fette, bindige Boden der Marsch".
Klei has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Klei, spelled K-L-E-I.
Definition
- 1norddeutsch, auch Bodenkunde: der schwere, lehmige, fette, bindige Boden der Marsch
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Klei appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Klei, der lehmähnliche Schlickboden an der Küste, bildet den Deichmantel, der Sand ist der Deichkern.“
„Östlich von Soest liegt der Bad Sassendorfer Ortsteil Enkesen, dem man zur Unterscheidung den Zusatz 'im Klei' gab. Und jener fette, aber nicht sehr tief reichende Tonboden, eben der Klei, ist schon seit Jahrhunderten charakteristisch für diese Landschaft.“
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Antonyms
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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