Kriegskunst
[ˈkʁiːksˌkʊnst]
The verdict
“Kriegskunst” is uncommon German (frequency #87,950 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,950
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gesamtheit der Fähigkeiten/Kenntnisse, die beim Planen und Führen eines Krieges benötigt werden
Corpus desk
Index DE-kriegskunst · Kriegskunst · German
Kriegskunst · rank #87,950 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,950
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH krepiert
Nearest frequency peer: krepiert (-1 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Kriegskunst“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- krachten
krachten
12,055 corpus weight
- Krankheitsb…
Krankheitsbildern
12,054 corpus weight
- krepiert
krepiert
12,052 corpus weight
- Kriegskunst
Kriegskunst
12,051 corpus weight
- Kringel
Kringel
12,050 corpus weight
- Kronzeugen
Kronzeugen
12,048 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Kriegskunst“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kriegskunst |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkʁiːksˌkʊnst] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #87,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Kriegskunst“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Kriegskunst is uncommon German at frequency #87,950 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkʁiːksˌkʊnst]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gesamtheit der Fähigkeiten/Kenntnisse, die beim Planen und Führen eines Krieges benötigt werden".
No misspelling variants are generated for Kriegskunst in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct German form is Kriegskunst, spelled K-R-I-E-G-S-K-U-N-S-T.
Definition
- 1Gesamtheit der Fähigkeiten/Kenntnisse, die beim Planen und Führen eines Krieges benötigt werden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kriegskunst appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Sicher hingegen ist, dass für die Kriegskunst der Überblick von hochgelegenen Aussichtspunkten schon immer eine wichtige Rolle spielte.“
„Aber nichts tun, einfach in die Wälder laufen und die Stadt im Stich lassen, das verstieß gegen alle Regeln der Kriegskunst und des militärischen Anstandes.“
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).