Kriegsopfer
[ˈkʁiːksˌʔɔp͡fɐ]
The verdict
“Kriegsopfer” is uncommon German (frequency #70,494 among 55,078 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,494
- frequency rank, German
- 55,078
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Person, die infolge von Kriegseinwirkungen den Tod, Verletzungen, Traumatisierung oder anderweitige Nachteile/Verluste erlitten hat
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kriegsopfer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkʁiːksˌʔɔp͡fɐ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #70,494 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Kriegsopfer” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Kriegsopfer is uncommon German at frequency #70,494 among 55,078 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkʁiːksˌʔɔp͡fɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Person, die infolge von Kriegseinwirkungen den Tod, Verletzungen, Traumatisierung oder anderweitige Nachteile/Verluste erlitten hat".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Kriegsopfer, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Kriegsopfer, spelled K-R-I-E-G-S-O-P-F-E-R.
Definition
- 1Person, die infolge von Kriegseinwirkungen den Tod, Verletzungen, Traumatisierung oder anderweitige Nachteile/Verluste erlitten hat
Antonyms
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 “Kriegsopfer”
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- The one correct German spelling is K-R-I-E-G-S-O-P-F-E-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.