Kreuzverhör
[ˈkʁɔɪ̯t͡sfɛɐ̯ˌhøːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Kreuzverhör” is uncommon German (frequency #69,436 among 55,078 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,436
- frequency rank, German
- 55,078
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Vernehmung, bei welcher Zeugen oder Sachverständige allein durch Staatsanwaltschaft und Strafverteidiger befragt werden
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kreuzverhör |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkʁɔɪ̯t͡sfɛɐ̯ˌhøːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #69,436 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Kreuzverhör” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Kreuzverhör is uncommon German at frequency #69,436 among 55,078 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkʁɔɪ̯t͡sfɛɐ̯ˌhøːɐ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vernehmung, bei welcher Zeugen oder Sachverständige allein durch Staatsanwaltschaft und Strafverteidiger befragt werden".
Kreuzverhör doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Kreuzverhör, spelled K-R-E-U-Z-V-E-R-H-Ö-R.
Definition
- 1Vernehmung, bei welcher Zeugen oder Sachverständige allein durch Staatsanwaltschaft und Strafverteidiger befragt werden
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 “Kreuzverhör”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is K-R-E-U-Z-V-E-R-H-Ö-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.