Mentalist
[mɛntaˈlɪst]
The verdict
“Mentalist” is uncommon German (frequency #93,285 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,285
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unterhaltungskünstler, der mit psychologischen Elementen arbeitet
Corpus desk
Index DE-mentalist · Mentalist · German
Mentalist · rank #93,285 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,285
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Menschenliebe
Nearest frequency peer: Menschenliebe (-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 „Mentalist“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Menschenjagd
Menschenjagd
6,719 corpus weight
- menschenlee…
menschenleere
6,718 corpus weight
- Menschenlie…
Menschenliebe
6,717 corpus weight
- Mentalist
Mentalist
6,716 corpus weight
- merklichen
merklichen
6,715 corpus weight
- Messgenauig…
Messgenauigkeit
6,714 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Mentalist“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mentalist |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [mɛntaˈlɪst] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,285 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Mentalist“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Mentalist is uncommon German at frequency #93,285 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [mɛntaˈlɪst]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Unterhaltungskünstler, der mit psychologischen Elementen arbeitet".
Mentalist has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Mentalist, spelled M-E-N-T-A-L-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Unterhaltungskünstler, der mit psychologischen Elementen arbeitet
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Mentalist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ein bekannter Mentalist ist im Moment auf Tournee.
Synonyms
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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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