Korvettenkapitän
[kɔʁˈvɛtn̩kapiˌtɛːn]
The verdict
“Korvettenkapitän” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Offiziersdienstgrad zwischen dem Stabskapitänleutnant und dem Fregattenkapitän
Corpus desk
Index DE-korvettenkapitan · Korvettenkapitän · German
Korvettenkapitän · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | Korvettenkapitän |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kɔʁˈvɛtn̩kapiˌtɛːn] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Korvettenkapitän“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Korvettenkapitän is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [kɔʁˈvɛtn̩kapiˌtɛːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Korvettenkapitän, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Korvettenkapitän, spelled K-O-R-V-E-T-T-E-N-K-A-P-I-T-Ä-N.
Definition
- 1Offiziersdienstgrad zwischen dem Stabskapitänleutnant und dem Fregattenkapitän
- 2Stabsoffizier im Range eines Korvettenkapitäns
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Korvettenkapitän appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Korvettenkapitän entspricht dem Major bei Heer und Luftwaffe.
Was muss ich noch tun, um Korvettenkapitän zu werden?
Synonyms
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.