Kühltruhe
[ˈkyːlˌtʁuːə]
The verdict
“Kühltruhe” is uncommon German (frequency #80,607 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,607
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - truhenförmiges Behältnis mit Kühltechnik zur Kühlung von leicht verderblichen Lebensmitteln
Corpus desk
Index DE-kuhltruhe · Kühltruhe · German
Kühltruhe · rank #80,607 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,607
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kutten
Nearest frequency peer: Kutten (-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 „Kühltruhe“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Kurskorrekt…
Kurskorrektur
19,398 corpus weight
- Kursleiter
Kursleiter
19,397 corpus weight
- kurzweiliger
kurzweiliger
19,396 corpus weight
- Kutten
Kutten
19,395 corpus weight
- Kühltruhe
Kühltruhe
19,394 corpus weight
- Lateral
Lateral
19,389 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Kühltruhe“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kühltruhe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkyːlˌtʁuːə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,607 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Kühltruhe“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Kühltruhe is uncommon German at frequency #80,607 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkyːlˌtʁuːə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "truhenförmiges Behältnis mit Kühltechnik zur Kühlung von leicht verderblichen Lebensmitteln".
Kühltruhe has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Kühltruhe, spelled K-Ü-H-L-T-R-U-H-E.
Definition
- 1truhenförmiges Behältnis mit Kühltechnik zur Kühlung von leicht verderblichen Lebensmitteln
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kühltruhe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In den Kühltruhen im Supermarkt werden Gemüse, Salate und frische Pilze gelagert, da diese zum alsbaldigen Verzehr bestimmt sind.
Weil drei tote Babys in einer Kühltruhe gefunden wurden, steht eine Mutter in Siegen vor Gericht.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).