kungeln
[ˈkʊŋl̩n]
The verdict
“kungeln” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - heimlich unsaubere Geschäfte abschließen oder geheime Absprachen treffen
Corpus desk
Index DE-kungeln · kungeln · German
kungeln · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "K" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kungeln |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈkʊŋl̩n] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „kungeln“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
kungeln is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈkʊŋl̩n]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "heimlich unsaubere Geschäfte abschließen oder geheime Absprachen treffen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for kungeln, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is kungeln, spelled K-U-N-G-E-L-N.
Definition
- 1heimlich unsaubere Geschäfte abschließen oder geheime Absprachen treffen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kungeln appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nachdem die Mafia die politische Macht an sich gerissen hatte, wurde viel im Land gekungelt.
„Viel zu lange schon ist sie [die EU] zum Projekt der Eliten und Diplomaten geworden, die häufig unter Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit kungeln.“
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.