Kleidchen
[ˈklaɪ̯tçən]
The verdict
“Kleidchen” is uncommon German (frequency #50,630 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,630
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kleines und/oder besonders dünnes/leichtes Kleid
Corpus desk
Index DE-kleidchen · Kleidchen · German
Kleidchen · rank #50,630 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,630
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kinderkrankhe…
Nearest frequency peer: Kinderkrankheiten (-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 „Kleidchen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Kinderdorf
Kinderdorf
49,373 corpus weight
- Kinderkrank…
Kinderkrankheiten
49,372 corpus weight
- Kleidchen
Kleidchen
49,371 corpus weight
- knickt
knickt
49,370 corpus weight
- Kniegelenk
Kniegelenk
49,369 corpus weight
- Kokon
Kokon
49,368 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Kleidchen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kleidchen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈklaɪ̯tçən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Kleidchen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Kleidchen is uncommon German at frequency #50,630 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈklaɪ̯tçən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "kleines und/oder besonders dünnes/leichtes Kleid".
Zero misspellings are on record for Kleidchen in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Kleidchen, spelled K-L-E-I-D-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1kleines und/oder besonders dünnes/leichtes Kleid
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kleidchen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ihre Arme und Beine wogten in wahren Fleischklumpen aus dem blauen Kleidchen hervor und glichen Vanille-Eis-Gebirgen, die zu schmelzen anfangen.“
„Madame Page erschien in einem Kleidchen, das man sogar noch im Dämmerlicht des Vorzimmers als verwirrend durchsichtig bezeichnen mußte.“
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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