knuddeln
[ˈknʊdl̩n]
The verdict
“knuddeln” is uncommon German (frequency #60,743 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,743
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas oder jemanden kräftig, aber liebevoll an sich drücken und kuscheln
Corpus desk
Index DE-knuddeln · knuddeln · German
knuddeln · rank #60,743 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,743
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kochkunst
Nearest frequency peer: Kochkunst (+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 „knuddeln“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Kloake
Kloake
39,261 corpus weight
- klügere
klügere
39,260 corpus weight
- knuddeln
knuddeln
39,258 corpus weight
- Kochkunst
Kochkunst
39,257 corpus weight
- kodiert
kodiert
39,256 corpus weight
- Kolibri
Kolibri
39,255 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „knuddeln“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | knuddeln |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈknʊdl̩n] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „knuddeln“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
knuddeln is uncommon German at frequency #60,743 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈknʊdl̩n]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "etwas oder jemanden kräftig, aber liebevoll an sich drücken und kuscheln".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for knuddeln, 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is knuddeln, spelled K-N-U-D-D-E-L-N.
Definition
- 1etwas oder jemanden kräftig, aber liebevoll an sich drücken und kuscheln
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how knuddeln appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sie knuddelt ihren Teddybären.
This word in other languages
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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