Küstrin
[kʏsˈtʁiːn]
The verdict
“Küstrin” is uncommon German (frequency #66,421 among 55,078 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,421
- frequency rank, German
- 55,078
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine Stadt in Polen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Küstrin |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [kʏsˈtʁiːn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Küstrin” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Küstrin is uncommon German at frequency #66,421 among 55,078 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [kʏsˈtʁiːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Stadt in Polen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Küstrin, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Küstrin, spelled K-Ü-S-T-R-I-N.
Definition
- 1eine Stadt in Polen
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 “Küstrin”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is K-Ü-S-T-R-I-N - 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.