Paladin

[palaˈdiːn]

/[palaˈdiːn]/ noun

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The verdict

“Paladin” is uncommon German (frequency #73,865 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#73,865
frequency rank, German
3,409
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - hochgestellte Person aus dem Gefolge eines Kaisers, Königs, Fürsten

Corpus desk

Index DE-paladin · Paladin · German

Paladin · rank #73,865 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #73,865
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,409
  • PHOTO-FINISH Ozonschicht

Nearest frequency peer: Ozonschicht (-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 „Paladin“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Paladin
PropertyValue
HeadwordPaladin
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[palaˈdiːn]
Letters7
Frequency rank#73,865
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Paladin“ im Deutschen

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

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

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Ozonschicht“ (#73,864), „Outlaw“ (#73,863), „Palliative“ (#73,867). Unter 3,409 „P“-Lemmata liegt „Paladin“ bei #73,865. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Paladin is uncommon German at frequency #73,865 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [palaˈdiːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for Paladin in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Paladin, spelled P-A-L-A-D-I-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    hochgestellte Person aus dem Gefolge eines Kaisers, Königs, Fürsten
  2. 2
    abwertend: jemand, der einem Höhergestellten bedingungslos Gefolgschaft leistet

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. „Überhaupt sind alle Fürsten und ihre Paladine, die auf jener Seite stehen, von beneidenswerter Schönheit, lauter Adonisse, Lohengrine oder Siegfriede.“
  2. „Man sieht seine Paladine Rudolf Heß, Walther Darré, Robert Ley, Fritz Todt, Viktor Lutze (Nachfolger des ermordeten Ernst Röhm), diverse Gauleiter, die ihn ankündigen, alle exakt im selben Gestus und Tonfall wie er selbst.“

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 "Paladin"?
"Paladin" is spelled P-A-L-A-D-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is [palaˈdiːn].
What does "Paladin" mean?
As a noun, "Paladin" means: hochgestellte Person aus dem Gefolge eines Kaisers, Königs, Fürsten
How do you pronounce "Paladin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Paladin" is [palaˈdiːn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Paladin" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list