Kränkung
[ˈkʁɛŋkʊŋ]
The verdict
“Kränkung” is an uncommon German word, ranked #62,581 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #62,581
- frequency rank, German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - die Verletzung eines anderen Menschen in seiner Ehre, seinen Gefühlen oder seinem Selbstbewusstsein
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kränkung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkʁɛŋkʊŋ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,581 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Kränkung” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Kränkung is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkʁɛŋkʊŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #62,581 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "die Verletzung eines anderen Menschen in seiner Ehre, seinen Gefühlen oder seinem Selbstbewusstsein".
Kränkung has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Kränkung, spelled K-R-Ä-N-K-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1die Verletzung eines anderen Menschen in seiner Ehre, seinen Gefühlen oder seinem Selbstbewusstsein
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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Using “Kränkung”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is K-R-Ä-N-K-U-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈkʁɛŋkʊŋ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.