präkolumbisch
[pʁɛkoˈlʊmbɪʃ]
The verdict
“präkolumbisch” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Zeit vor der Entdeckung Amerikas durch Christoph Kolumbus betreffend, zu der Zeit gehörend, aus ihr stammend
Corpus desk
Index DE-prakolumbisch · präkolumbisch · German
präkolumbisch · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | präkolumbisch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [pʁɛkoˈlʊmbɪʃ] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „präkolumbisch“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
präkolumbisch is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [pʁɛkoˈlʊmbɪʃ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "die Zeit vor der Entdeckung Amerikas durch Christoph Kolumbus betreffend, zu der Zeit gehörend, aus ihr stammend".
No misspelling variants are generated for präkolumbisch in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is präkolumbisch, spelled P-R-Ä-K-O-L-U-M-B-I-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1die Zeit vor der Entdeckung Amerikas durch Christoph Kolumbus betreffend, zu der Zeit gehörend, aus ihr stammend
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how präkolumbisch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Im Fundus des United States National Museum in Washington lagert eine vor knapp hundert Jahren entstandene Sammlung präkolumbischer Steinschleudern.“
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.