Kursleiter
[ˈkʊʁsˌlaɪ̯tɐ]
The verdict
“Kursleiter” is uncommon German (frequency #80,604 among 55,078 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,604
- frequency rank, German
- 55,078
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Leiter eines Kurses
Corpus desk
Index DE-kursleiter · Kursleiter · German
Kursleiter · rank #80,604 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,604
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 55,078
- PHOTO-FINISH Kurskorrektur
Nearest frequency peer: Kurskorrektur (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Kursleiter”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Kurgäste
Kurgäste
19,400 corpus weight
- Kurskorrekt…
Kurskorrektur
19,398 corpus weight
- Kursleiter
Kursleiter
19,397 corpus weight
- kurzweiliger
kurzweiliger
19,396 corpus weight
- Kutten
Kutten
19,395 corpus weight
- Kühltruhe
Kühltruhe
19,394 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Kursleiter” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kursleiter |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkʊʁsˌlaɪ̯tɐ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,604 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Kursleiter” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Kursleiter is uncommon German at frequency #80,604 among 55,078 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkʊʁsˌlaɪ̯tɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Leiter eines Kurses".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Kursleiter, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Kursleiter, spelled K-U-R-S-L-E-I-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Leiter eines Kurses
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.