Kürass
[ˈkyːʁas]
The verdict
“Kürass” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ursprünglich lederner, später metallener Brustpanzer (mit Übergangsformen), der vom 15. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert gebräuchlich war
Corpus desk
Index DE-kurass · Kürass · German
Kürass · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 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 | Kürass |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkyːʁas] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Kürass“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Kürass is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkyːʁas]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ursprünglich lederner, später metallener Brustpanzer (mit Übergangsformen), der vom 15. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert gebräuchlich war".
Kürass doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Kürass, spelled K-Ü-R-A-S-S.
Definition
- 1ursprünglich lederner, später metallener Brustpanzer (mit Übergangsformen), der vom 15. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert gebräuchlich war
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Kürass appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wichtigstes Element war der Kürass, also eine zur Bauchmitte spitz zulaufende Eisenplatte, die den gesamten Rumpf in einem Stück bedeckt.“
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.