knockout

/[…]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#64,431

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

knockout is aGermannoun. It means: der Vorgang, einen Gegner zu Boden zu bringen und dieser kommt innerhalb von 10 Sekunden nicht wieder auf die Beine; Knockout Pronounced […].

Key facts for knockout
PropertyValue
Headwordknockout
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters8
Frequency rank#64,431
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of knockout in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for knockout is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #64,431 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for knockout in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is knockout, spelled K-N-O-C-K-O-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    der Vorgang, einen Gegner zu Boden zu bringen und dieser kommt innerhalb von 10 Sekunden nicht wieder auf die Beine; Knockout
  2. 2
    ein Wettkampf, bei dem nur der Gewinner eines Matches eine Runde weiter kommt; Ausscheidungswettkampf
  3. 3
    ein sehr attraktives Äußeres; Wucht, Knaller

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #64,431 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "knockout"?
"knockout" is spelled K-N-O-C-K-O-U-T. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "knockout" mean?
As a noun, "knockout" means: der Vorgang, einen Gegner zu Boden zu bringen und dieser kommt innerhalb von 10 Sekunden nicht wieder auf die Beine; Knockout
How do you pronounce "knockout"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "knockout" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "knockout" come from?
"knockout" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.