Klump
[klʊmp]
The verdict
“Klump” is uncommon German (frequency #98,694 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,694
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kaputt, zerstört
Corpus desk
Index DE-klump · Klump · German
Klump · rank #98,694 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,694
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Klinikaufenth…
Nearest frequency peer: Klinikaufenthalt (-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 “Klump”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- kleinteilige
kleinteilige
1,310 corpus weight
- Kletterhalle
Kletterhalle
1,309 corpus weight
- Klinikaufen…
Klinikaufenthalt
1,308 corpus weight
- Klump
Klump
1,307 corpus weight
- Knieschmerz…
Knieschmerzen
1,306 corpus weight
- knipst
knipst
1,305 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Klump” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Klump |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [klʊmp] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Klump” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
Klump is uncommon German at frequency #98,694 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [klʊmp]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Klump, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Klump, spelled K-L-U-M-P.
Definition
- 1kaputt, zerstört
- 2Klumpen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Klump appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sie hat das Auto zu Klump gefahren.
Er wird in der Kneipe noch zu Klump geschlagen.
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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