Kurzweil
[ˈkʊʁt͡svaɪ̯l]
The verdict
“Kurzweil” is uncommon German (frequency #66,416 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,416
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - leichte, angenehme, bisweilen lustige Unterhaltung
Corpus desk
Index DE-kurzweil · Kurzweil · German
Kurzweil · rank #66,416 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,416
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kundschafter
Nearest frequency peer: Kundschafter (-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 „Kurzweil“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Kulanz
Kulanz
33,589 corpus weight
- Kulturwisse…
Kulturwissenschaft
33,587 corpus weight
- Kundschafter
Kundschafter
33,586 corpus weight
- Kurzweil
Kurzweil
33,585 corpus weight
- Käfern
Käfern
33,583 corpus weight
- küren
küren
33,581 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Kurzweil“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kurzweil |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkʊʁt͡svaɪ̯l] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Kurzweil“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Kurzweil is uncommon German at frequency #66,416 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkʊʁt͡svaɪ̯l]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "leichte, angenehme, bisweilen lustige Unterhaltung".
Kurzweil doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Kurzweil, spelled K-U-R-Z-W-E-I-L.
Definition
- 1leichte, angenehme, bisweilen lustige Unterhaltung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kurzweil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Schiebt meine Vernunft nicht im Kurzweil herum.“
„Unter den nackten Göttern und Göttinnen, die sich dort bei Nektar und Ambrosia erlustigen, seht Ihr eine Göttin, die, obgleich umgeben von lauter Fröhlichkeit und Kurzweil, dennoch immer einen Panzer trägt und den Helm auf dem Kopf und den Speer in der Hand behält. Es ist die Göttin der Weisheit.“
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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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