Kulturkritik
[kʊlˈtuːɐ̯kʁiˌtiːk]
The verdict
“Kulturkritik” is uncommon German (frequency #91,854 among 55,078 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,854
- frequency rank, German
- 55,078
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - dauerhafte und häufig institutionalisierte Kritik an Ausprägungen der aktuellen Kultur, die in Hinsicht auf menschliche Bedürfnisse als unpassend, nicht mehr passend oder veränderungswürdig empfund...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kulturkritik |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kʊlˈtuːɐ̯kʁiˌtiːk] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #91,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Kulturkritik” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Kulturkritik is uncommon German at frequency #91,854 among 55,078 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kʊlˈtuːɐ̯kʁiˌtiːk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "dauerhafte und häufig institutionalisierte Kritik an Ausprägungen der aktuellen Kultur, die in Hinsicht auf menschliche Bedürfnisse als unpassend, nicht mehr passend oder veränderungswürdig empfund...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Kulturkritik, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Kulturkritik, spelled K-U-L-T-U-R-K-R-I-T-I-K.
Definition
- 1dauerhafte und häufig institutionalisierte Kritik an Ausprägungen der aktuellen Kultur, die in Hinsicht auf menschliche Bedürfnisse als unpassend, nicht mehr passend oder veränderungswürdig empfunden werden
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 “Kulturkritik”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is K-U-L-T-U-R-K-R-I-T-I-K - 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.