Kochkunst
[ˈkɔxˌkʊnst]
The verdict
“Kochkunst” is uncommon German (frequency #60,744 among 55,078 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,744
- frequency rank, German
- 55,078
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - die Kunst, das Handwerk der Speisenzubereitung
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kochkunst |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɔxˌkʊnst] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,744 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Kochkunst” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Kochkunst is uncommon German at frequency #60,744 among 55,078 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkɔxˌkʊnst]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Kochkunst in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Kochkunst, spelled K-O-C-H-K-U-N-S-T.
Definition
- 1die Kunst, das Handwerk der Speisenzubereitung
- 2die Fähigkeit einer Person, schmackhafte und optisch ansprechende Speisen zuzubereiten
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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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Using “Kochkunst”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is K-O-C-H-K-U-N-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈkɔxˌkʊnst] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.