Leutseligkeit
[ˈlɔɪ̯tzeːlɪçkaɪ̯t]
The verdict
“Leutseligkeit” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - entgegenkommender, freundlicher Umgang mit anderen Personen
Corpus desk
Index DE-leutseligkeit · Leutseligkeit · German
Leutseligkeit · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" 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 | Leutseligkeit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlɔɪ̯tzeːlɪçkaɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Leutseligkeit“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Leutseligkeit is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈlɔɪ̯tzeːlɪçkaɪ̯t]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "entgegenkommender, freundlicher Umgang mit anderen Personen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Leutseligkeit, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Leutseligkeit, spelled L-E-U-T-S-E-L-I-G-K-E-I-T.
Definition
- 1entgegenkommender, freundlicher Umgang mit anderen Personen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Leutseligkeit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Seine Leutseligkeit sollte Vertrauen einflößen.“
„Der dritte war den beiden Beschriebenen total unähnlich, und was jene an Wildheit und Lebensmut zuviel besaßen, schien dieser durch Sanftmut und Leutseligkeit wieder ausgleichen zu wollen.“
This word in other languages
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.