Museumsleiter

[muˈzeːʊmsˌlaɪ̯tɐ]

/[muˈzeːʊmsˌlaɪ̯tɐ]/ noun

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The verdict

“Museumsleiter” is uncommon German (frequency #53,096 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#53,096
frequency rank, German
3,571
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person an der Spitze eines Museums

Corpus desk

Index DE-museumsleiter · Museumsleiter · German

Museumsleiter · rank #53,096 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #53,096
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,571
  • PHOTO-FINISH multinationale

Nearest frequency peer: multinationale (-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 „Museumsleiter“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Museumsleiter“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Museumsleiter
PropertyValue
HeadwordMuseumsleiter
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[muˈzeːʊmsˌlaɪ̯tɐ]
Letters13
Frequency rank#53,096
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Museumsleiter“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.Museumsleiterfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „multinationale“ (#53,095), „muck“ (#53,094), „Märchens“ (#53,098). Unter 3,571 „M“-Lemmata liegt „Museumsleiter“ bei #53,096. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Museumsleiter is uncommon German at frequency #53,096 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [muˈzeːʊmsˌlaɪ̯tɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Person an der Spitze eines Museums".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Museumsleiter, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Museumsleiter, spelled M-U-S-E-U-M-S-L-E-I-T-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Person an der Spitze eines Museums

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Museumsleiter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Er war Kunsthistoriker, Museumsleiter und Kunstpädagoge.“

Synonyms

Museumsdirektor

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Museumsleiter"?
"Museumsleiter" is spelled M-U-S-E-U-M-S-L-E-I-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is [muˈzeːʊmsˌlaɪ̯tɐ].
What does "Museumsleiter" mean?
As a noun, "Museumsleiter" means: Person an der Spitze eines Museums
How do you pronounce "Museumsleiter"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Museumsleiter" is [muˈzeːʊmsˌlaɪ̯tɐ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Museumsleiter", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list