kulant
[kuˈlant]
The verdict
“kulant” is uncommon German (frequency #97,268 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,268
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - entgegenkommend, großzügig, besonders in finanziellen oder geschäftlichen Dingen
Corpus desk
Index DE-kulant · kulant · German
kulant · rank #97,268 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,268
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH kugeligen
Nearest frequency peer: kugeligen (-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 „kulant“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- kroatischer
kroatischer
2,737 corpus weight
- krächzen
krächzen
2,736 corpus weight
- kugeligen
kugeligen
2,734 corpus weight
- kulant
kulant
2,733 corpus weight
- Kulturlands…
Kulturlandschaften
2,731 corpus weight
- Kunstdrucke
Kunstdrucke
2,729 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „kulant“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kulant |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [kuˈlant] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,268 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „kulant“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
kulant is uncommon German at frequency #97,268 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [kuˈlant]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "entgegenkommend, großzügig, besonders in finanziellen oder geschäftlichen Dingen".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for kulant, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is kulant, spelled K-U-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1entgegenkommend, großzügig, besonders in finanziellen oder geschäftlichen Dingen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kulant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er zeigte sich in den Verhandlungen durchaus als kulant.
Antonyms
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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