Personenschutz

[pɛʁˈzoːnənˌʃʊt͡s]

/[pɛʁˈzoːnənˌʃʊt͡s]/ noun

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The verdict

“Personenschutz” is uncommon German (frequency #53,150 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#53,150
frequency rank, German
3,409
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gesamtheit aller vorbeugenden Sicherheitsmaßnahmen, die jedwede Person vor Schaden bewahrt

Corpus desk

Index DE-personenschutz · Personenschutz · German

Personenschutz · rank #53,150 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #53,150
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,409
  • PHOTO-FINISH Persönlichkei…

Nearest frequency peer: Persönlichkeitsrecht (+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 „Personenschutz“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Personenschutz
PropertyValue
HeadwordPersonenschutz
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[pɛʁˈzoːnənˌʃʊt͡s]
Letters14
Frequency rank#53,150
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Personenschutz“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).Personenschutzfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Persönlichkeitsrecht“ (#53,151), „Penicillin“ (#53,148), „Pfalzgrafen“ (#53,152). Unter 3,409 „P“-Lemmata liegt „Personenschutz“ bei #53,150. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Personenschutz is uncommon German at frequency #53,150 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [pɛʁˈzoːnənˌʃʊt͡s]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for Personenschutz in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Personenschutz, spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-E-N-S-C-H-U-T-Z.

Definition

  1. 1
    Gesamtheit aller vorbeugenden Sicherheitsmaßnahmen, die jedwede Person vor Schaden bewahrt
  2. 2
    polizeilicher, militärischer oder privatrechtlicher Schutz für schutzbedürftige Personen

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. „Bei Bränden, die mit einem Schwelbrand und einer geringen Rauchentwicklung beginnen (das sind ca. 90 % aller Brände), müssen durch die richtige Wahl des Detektionssystems die hohen Anforderungen des Personenschutzes sichergestellt werden.“
  2. „Nach MBO § 3 (1) kommt dem Personenschutz eine besondere Bedeutung zu, aber auch der Umweltschutz ist in besonderer Weise angesprochen.“

Antonyms

Objektschutz

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 "Personenschutz"?
"Personenschutz" is spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-E-N-S-C-H-U-T-Z. The IPA pronunciation is [pɛʁˈzoːnənˌʃʊt͡s].
What does "Personenschutz" mean?
As a noun, "Personenschutz" means: Gesamtheit aller vorbeugenden Sicherheitsmaßnahmen, die jedwede Person vor Schaden bewahrt
How do you pronounce "Personenschutz"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Personenschutz" is [pɛʁˈzoːnənˌʃʊt͡s]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Personenschutz" come from?
"Personenschutz" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list