Kredit

/[kʁeˈdiːt]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,717

in German word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

Kredit is aGermannoun. It means: meist gegen Zahlung von Zinsen zur Verfügung gestelltes fremdes Kapital Pronounced [kʁeˈdiːt]. It ranks #4,717 in German word frequency. Often confused with Kreis and kreuzt.

Key facts for Kredit
PropertyValue
HeadwordKredit
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kʁeˈdiːt]
Letters6
Frequency rank#4,717
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Kredit in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Kredit is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kʁeˈdiːt]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,717 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "meist gegen Zahlung von Zinsen zur Verfügung gestelltes fremdes Kapital".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Kredit, with forms such as "kerdit", "kkredit", and "krdeit". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Kreis", "kreuzt", "kreist", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Kredit, spelled K-R-E-D-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    meist gegen Zahlung von Zinsen zur Verfügung gestelltes fremdes Kapital

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: kerdit,kkredit,krdeit,kreddit,kreditt,kredti,kreidt,krredit,rkedit

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Kredit

Misspelling Variants of "Kredit"

kerdit6kkredit7krdeit6kreddit7kreditt7kredti6kreidt6krredit7
Misspelling Variants of "Kredit"

Frequency rank: #4,717 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Kredit"?
"Kredit" is spelled K-R-E-D-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is [kʁeˈdiːt].
What does "Kredit" mean?
As a noun, "Kredit" means: meist gegen Zahlung von Zinsen zur Verfügung gestelltes fremdes Kapital
What words are commonly confused with "Kredit"?
"Kredit" is commonly confused with "Kreis", "kreuzt", "kreist". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Kredit"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Kredit" is [kʁeˈdiːt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Kredit" come from?
"Kredit" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.