Korso
[ˈkɔʁzo]
The verdict
“Korso” is uncommon German (frequency #81,774 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,774
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Schaufahrt von (oft geschmückten) Wagen zu festlichen / feierlichen Anlässen oder zu Demonstrationen
Corpus desk
Index DE-korso · Korso · German
Korso · rank #81,774 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,774
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Korkenzieher
Nearest frequency peer: Korkenzieher (-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 „Korso“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- konsumierten
konsumierten
18,233 corpus weight
- Kontextes
Kontextes
18,232 corpus weight
- Kontraindik…
Kontraindikationen
18,231 corpus weight
- korinthisch…
korinthischen
18,229 corpus weight
- Korkenzieher
Korkenzieher
18,228 corpus weight
- Korso
Korso
18,227 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Korso“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Korso |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɔʁzo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Korso“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Korso is uncommon German at frequency #81,774 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkɔʁzo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Schaufahrt von (oft geschmückten) Wagen zu festlichen / feierlichen Anlässen oder zu Demonstrationen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Korso, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Korso, spelled K-O-R-S-O.
Definition
- 1Schaufahrt von (oft geschmückten) Wagen zu festlichen / feierlichen Anlässen oder zu Demonstrationen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Korso appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In der Innenstadt wurde der Sieg der Mannschaft mit langen Korsos gefeiert.
„Die zweite Avenue war abends ein Korso der Homosexuellen.“
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); 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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