Personenkult
[pɛʁˈzoːnənˌkʊlt]
The verdict
“Personenkult” is uncommon German (frequency #63,638 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,638
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - übertriebene und unverhältnismäßige Verehrung einer Person
Corpus desk
Index DE-personenkult · Personenkult · German
Personenkult · rank #63,638 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,638
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Pensionskasse
Nearest frequency peer: Pensionskasse (-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 „Personenkult“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Pauke
Pauke
36,367 corpus weight
- pennt
pennt
36,365 corpus weight
- Pensionskas…
Pensionskasse
36,364 corpus weight
- Personenkult
Personenkult
36,363 corpus weight
- Pessimist
Pessimist
36,362 corpus weight
- Pflegebedür…
Pflegebedürftigkeit
36,359 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Personenkult“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Personenkult |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pɛʁˈzoːnənˌkʊlt] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #63,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Personenkult“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Personenkult is uncommon German at frequency #63,638 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [pɛʁˈzoːnənˌkʊlt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "übertriebene und unverhältnismäßige Verehrung einer Person".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Personenkult, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Personenkult, spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-E-N-K-U-L-T.
Definition
- 1übertriebene und unverhältnismäßige Verehrung einer Person
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Personenkult appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Das Denkmal erinnert nicht nur an den Krieg, sondern auch an den Personenkult, mit dem sich der Diktator feiern ließ: Die Fäuste, die die Waffen halten, wurden nach Abgüssen von Saddams Händen geformt.“
„Obwohl als Chefarzt hierarchische Spitze der Klinik, lehnte Meixner jede Art Personenkult ab; weshalb um seinen Geburtstag auch kein Aufstand gemacht werden sollte.“
Synonyms
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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