Kongolese
[kɔŋɡoˈleːzə]
The verdict
“Kongolese” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Staatsbürger der Republik Kongo
Corpus desk
Index DE-kongolese · Kongolese · German
Kongolese · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "K" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kongolese |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kɔŋɡoˈleːzə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Kongolese“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Kongolese is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [kɔŋɡoˈleːzə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Kongolese in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. 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.
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. The correct German form is Kongolese, spelled K-O-N-G-O-L-E-S-E.
Definition
- 1Staatsbürger der Republik Kongo
- 2Staatsbürger der Demokratischen Republik Kongo
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kongolese appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Unter den Studenten war kein Kongolese.
„Schließlich übernehmen die Kongolesen die Zuschreibungen selbst, und so sammelt sich hier ideologischer Brennstoff für die blutigen Rivalitäten und Bürgerkriege, die Afrika bis ins 20. Jahrhundert verheeren werden.“
Synonyms
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.