Latinum
[laˈtiːnʊm]
The verdict
“Latinum” is uncommon German (frequency #65,453 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,453
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - amtlicher Nachweis über Lateinkenntnisse
Corpus desk
Index DE-latinum · Latinum · German
Latinum · rank #65,453 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,453
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Laserpointer
Nearest frequency peer: Laserpointer (-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 „Latinum“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Landnahme
Landnahme
34,551 corpus weight
- Landsmannsc…
Landsmannschaft
34,550 corpus weight
- Laserpointer
Laserpointer
34,549 corpus weight
- Latinum
Latinum
34,548 corpus weight
- Latz
Latz
34,547 corpus weight
- leaves
leaves
34,546 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Latinum“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Latinum |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [laˈtiːnʊm] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,453 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Latinum“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Latinum is uncommon German at frequency #65,453 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [laˈtiːnʊm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Latinum in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Latinum, spelled L-A-T-I-N-U-M.
Definition
- 1amtlicher Nachweis über Lateinkenntnisse
- 2die für [1] notwendigen Kenntnisse
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Latinum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Für das Studium der Theologie ist das Latinum nötig.
„Alle reden über kürzere Studienzeiten, aber Deutschlands zopfige Universitäten bauen einem Bildungsfossil ein Museum: Sie piesacken ihre Studenten mit dem Latinum und treiben sie in teure, zeitraubende Crashkurse.“
Antonyms
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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