Kunstwort
[ˈkʊnstˌvɔʁt]
The verdict
“Kunstwort” is uncommon German (frequency #87,956 among 55,078 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,956
- frequency rank, German
- 55,078
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Wort, das aus Bruchstücken von Wörtern so zusammengesetzt ist, dass es leicht auszusprechen und zu merken ist (den Sinn kann man bestenfalls noch erraten)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kunstwort |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkʊnstˌvɔʁt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Kunstwort” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Kunstwort is uncommon German at frequency #87,956 among 55,078 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkʊnstˌvɔʁt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Kunstwort in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Kunstwort, spelled K-U-N-S-T-W-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1Wort, das aus Bruchstücken von Wörtern so zusammengesetzt ist, dass es leicht auszusprechen und zu merken ist (den Sinn kann man bestenfalls noch erraten)
- 2Fachwort, Fachausdruck
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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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Using “Kunstwort”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is K-U-N-S-T-W-O-R-T - 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.