Kriegsopfer
[ˈkʁiːksˌʔɔp͡fɐ]
The verdict
“Kriegsopfer” is uncommon German (frequency #70,494 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,494
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die infolge von Kriegseinwirkungen den Tod, Verletzungen, Traumatisierung oder anderweitige Nachteile/Verluste erlitten hat
Corpus desk
Index DE-kriegsopfer · Kriegsopfer · German
Kriegsopfer · rank #70,494 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,494
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH kribbelt
Nearest frequency peer: kribbelt (-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 „Kriegsopfer“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Krebsgeschw…
Krebsgeschwür
29,511 corpus weight
- Krebsrisiko
Krebsrisiko
29,510 corpus weight
- kribbelt
kribbelt
29,508 corpus weight
- Kriegsopfer
Kriegsopfer
29,507 corpus weight
- Krings
Krings
29,506 corpus weight
- Kryptograph…
Kryptographie
29,504 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Kriegsopfer“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Kriegsopfer“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Kriegsopfer is uncommon German at frequency #70,494 among 4,158 “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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kriegsopfer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Da haben die Kinder hauptsächlich gelernt, bei Fliegergefahr in geschlossenem Zug in den Keller zu gehen und Feldpostpakete zu packen und für Kriegsopfer zu sammeln.“
„Doch auch die Zahl der tschechischen Kriegsopfer ging in die Zehntausende.“
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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