Messerstecher
[ˈmɛsɐˌʃtɛçɐ]
The verdict
“Messerstecher” is uncommon German (frequency #61,740 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,740
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (männliche^☆) Person, die im Zuge eines Streits mit einem Messer zusticht
Corpus desk
Index DE-messerstecher · Messerstecher · German
Messerstecher · rank #61,740 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,740
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Millisekunden
Nearest frequency peer: Millisekunden (+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 „Messerstecher“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- meistverkau…
meistverkauften
38,264 corpus weight
- mentoring
mentoring
38,263 corpus weight
- Messerstech…
Messerstecher
38,261 corpus weight
- Millisekund…
Millisekunden
38,260 corpus weight
- mimen
mimen
38,259 corpus weight
- Minibar
Minibar
38,258 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Messerstecher“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Messerstecher |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmɛsɐˌʃtɛçɐ] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #61,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Messerstecher“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Messerstecher is uncommon German at frequency #61,740 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈmɛsɐˌʃtɛçɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(männliche^☆) Person, die im Zuge eines Streits mit einem Messer zusticht".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Messerstecher, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Messerstecher, spelled M-E-S-S-E-R-S-T-E-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1(männliche^☆) Person, die im Zuge eines Streits mit einem Messer zusticht
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Messerstecher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Messerstecher, der am Donnerstag die Verkäuferin eines Getränkemarktes im hessischen Alsfeld erstochen hat, ist offenbar gefasst.“
„Ich war doppelt froh. Zum einen, dass wir den Täter finden konnten. Zum anderen, dass wir den Messerstecher nicht im Beisein der Libanesen festnehmen mussten.“
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); 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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).