Kriminalität
The verdict
“Kriminalität” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #7,080 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #7,080
- frequency rank, German
- 12
- letters
- 18
- tracked misspellings
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Gesamtumfang der Straftaten
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kriminalität |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kʁiminaliˈtɛːt] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #7,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Kriminalität” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Kriminalität is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kʁiminaliˈtɛːt]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,080 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Gesamtumfang der Straftaten".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kriminalität, with forms such as "kirminalität", "kkriminalität", and "kriimnalität". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Kriminalität, spelled K-R-I-M-I-N-A-L-I-T-Ä-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gesamtumfang der Straftaten
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: kirminalität,kkriminalität,kriimnalität,krimianlität,kriminailtät,kriminalittä,kriminalittät,kriminalitätt,kriminaliätt,kriminallität,kriminaltiät,kriminlaität,kriminnalität,krimminalität,krimnialität,krmiinalität,krriminalität,rkiminalität
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Kriminalität — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "Kriminalität"
Frequency rank: #7,080 in German
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Using “Kriminalität”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is K-R-I-M-I-N-A-L-I-T-Ä-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kʁiminaliˈtɛːt] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter K in our German index: