Krankenhaus
[ˈkʁaŋkn̩ˌhaʊ̯s]
The verdict
“Krankenhaus” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #1,518 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,518
- frequency rank, German
- 11
- letters
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - größeres Gebäude oder Gebäudekomplex mit einer medizinischen Einrichtung, in dem Krankheiten, Leiden oder körperliche Schäden bei Menschen festgestellt und jene durch stationäre oder ambulante Beha...
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Krankenhaus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkʁaŋkn̩ˌhaʊ̯s] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #1,518 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Krankenhaus” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Krankenhaus is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkʁaŋkn̩ˌhaʊ̯s]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,518 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "größeres Gebäude oder Gebäudekomplex mit einer medizinischen Einrichtung, in dem Krankheiten, Leiden oder körperliche Schäden bei Menschen festgestellt und jene durch stationäre oder ambulante Beha...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for Krankenhaus, with forms such as "karnkenhaus", "kkrankenhaus", and "kraknenhaus". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Krankenhäuser", "Krankenhauses", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Krankenhaus, spelled K-R-A-N-K-E-N-H-A-U-S.
Definition
- 1größeres Gebäude oder Gebäudekomplex mit einer medizinischen Einrichtung, in dem Krankheiten, Leiden oder körperliche Schäden bei Menschen festgestellt und jene durch stationäre oder ambulante Behandlung geheilt oder gelindert sowie Geburtshilfe und Sterbebegleitung geleistet werden
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: karnkenhaus,kkrankenhaus,kraknenhaus,kraneknhaus,krankehnaus,krankenahus,krankenhasu,krankenhauss,krankenhhaus,krankenhuas,krankennhaus,krankkenhaus,kranknehaus,krannkenhaus,krnakenhaus,krrankenhaus,rkankenhaus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Krankenhaus - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “Krankenhaus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is K-R-A-N-K-E-N-H-A-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈkʁaŋkn̩ˌhaʊ̯s] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Krankenhäuser” - see the side-by-side comparison. Krankenhaus vs Krankenhäuser
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.