Kohlenmonoxid
[ˌkoːlənˈmoːnɔksiːt]
The verdict
“Kohlenmonoxid” is uncommon German (frequency #53,002 among 55,078 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,002
- frequency rank, German
- 55,078
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - sehr giftiges, farbloses, geruchloses und geschmackloses Gas, das bei unvollständiger Verbrennung entsteht
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kohlenmonoxid |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌkoːlənˈmoːnɔksiːt] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #53,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Kohlenmonoxid” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Kohlenmonoxid is uncommon German at frequency #53,002 among 55,078 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˌkoːlənˈmoːnɔksiːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sehr giftiges, farbloses, geruchloses und geschmackloses Gas, das bei unvollständiger Verbrennung entsteht".
Kohlenmonoxid doesn't appear in our generated misspelling 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, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for 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 Kohlenmonoxid, spelled K-O-H-L-E-N-M-O-N-O-X-I-D.
Definition
- 1sehr giftiges, farbloses, geruchloses und geschmackloses Gas, das bei unvollständiger Verbrennung entsteht
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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 “Kohlenmonoxid”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is K-O-H-L-E-N-M-O-N-O-X-I-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.