Kontrollstelle
[kɔnˈtʁɔlˌʃtɛlə]
The verdict
“Kontrollstelle” is uncommon German (frequency #87,944 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,944
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stelle, an der Kontrollen durchgeführt werden
Corpus desk
Index DE-kontrollstelle · Kontrollstelle · German
Kontrollstelle · rank #87,944 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,944
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kontrakte
Nearest frequency peer: Kontrakte (-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 „Kontrollstelle“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Kontoinhaber
Kontoinhaber
12,059 corpus weight
- Kontrakte
Kontrakte
12,058 corpus weight
- Kontrollste…
Kontrollstelle
12,057 corpus weight
- Kopfbahnhof
Kopfbahnhof
12,056 corpus weight
- krachten
krachten
12,055 corpus weight
- Krankheitsb…
Krankheitsbildern
12,054 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Kontrollstelle“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kontrollstelle |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kɔnˈtʁɔlˌʃtɛlə] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #87,944 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Kontrollstelle“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Kontrollstelle is uncommon German at frequency #87,944 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kɔnˈtʁɔlˌʃtɛlə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Stelle, an der Kontrollen durchgeführt werden".
Zero misspellings are on record for Kontrollstelle 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, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 Kontrollstelle, spelled K-O-N-T-R-O-L-L-S-T-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Stelle, an der Kontrollen durchgeführt werden
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Kontrollstelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Danach ging er zurück zur Kontrollstelle.“
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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