Lohnkiller
[ˈloːnˌkɪlɐ]
The verdict
“Lohnkiller” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die mit dem Umbringen von Leuten ihren Lebensunterhalt verdient, gegen Bezahlung Leute ermordet
Corpus desk
Index DE-lohnkiller · Lohnkiller · German
Lohnkiller · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | Lohnkiller |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈloːnˌkɪlɐ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Lohnkiller“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Lohnkiller is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈloːnˌkɪlɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Person, die mit dem Umbringen von Leuten ihren Lebensunterhalt verdient, gegen Bezahlung Leute ermordet".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Lohnkiller, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Lohnkiller, spelled L-O-H-N-K-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Person, die mit dem Umbringen von Leuten ihren Lebensunterhalt verdient, gegen Bezahlung Leute ermordet
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lohnkiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Doch selbst die Abgebrühtheit eines Lohnkillers hat ihre Grenzen.“
Synonyms
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.