Kunstwissenschaft
[ˈkʊnstˌvɪsn̩ʃaft]
The verdict
“Kunstwissenschaft” is uncommon German (frequency #65,441 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,441
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wissenschaft von der bildenden Kunst
Corpus desk
Index DE-kunstwissenschaft · Kunstwissenschaft · German
Kunstwissenschaft · rank #65,441 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,441
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kunstwelt
Nearest frequency peer: Kunstwelt (-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 „Kunstwissenschaft“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Kunigunde
Kunigunde
34,563 corpus weight
- Kunstgegens…
Kunstgegenstände
34,562 corpus weight
- Kunstwelt
Kunstwelt
34,561 corpus weight
- Kunstwissen…
Kunstwissenschaft
34,560 corpus weight
- kurioserwei…
kurioserweise
34,558 corpus weight
- kuschelt
kuschelt
34,556 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Kunstwissenschaft“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kunstwissenschaft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkʊnstˌvɪsn̩ʃaft] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Frequency rank | #65,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Kunstwissenschaft“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Kunstwissenschaft is uncommon German at frequency #65,441 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkʊnstˌvɪsn̩ʃaft]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Wissenschaft von der bildenden Kunst".
Zero misspellings are on record for Kunstwissenschaft in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Kunstwissenschaft, spelled K-U-N-S-T-W-I-S-S-E-N-S-C-H-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1Wissenschaft von der bildenden Kunst
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kunstwissenschaft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Selbst getragen hat er es angeblich nur ein einziges Mal, aber van Gogh wollte in den Schuhen auch nicht laufen, er wollte sie malen. Daraus wurden die berühmtesten Schuhe der Kunstwissenschaft und das Lieblingsobjekt der philosophischen Ästhetik.
Nichts deutet darauf hin, dass er es in Aby Warburg mit einer Gründerfigur der Kunstwissenschaft des 20. Jahrhunderts zu tun hat, die auf einem umfassenden kulturanthropologischen Wissen vom Menschen beruht.
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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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