Kontrabassist
[ˌkɔntʁabaˈsɪst]
The verdict
“Kontrabassist” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die Kontrabass spielt
Corpus desk
Index DE-kontrabassist · Kontrabassist · German
Kontrabassist · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 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 | Kontrabassist |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌkɔntʁabaˈsɪst] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Kontrabassist“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Kontrabassist is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˌkɔntʁabaˈsɪst]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Person, die Kontrabass spielt".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Kontrabassist in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Kontrabassist, spelled K-O-N-T-R-A-B-A-S-S-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Person, die Kontrabass spielt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Kontrabassist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„In jüngerer Zeit hat sie etwa viel mit dem Kontrabassisten Klaus Kürvers und mit der Klarinettistin und Multiinstrumentalistin Lena Wenta zusammengearbeitet.“
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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.