Prälaten

[pʁɛˈlaːtn̩]

/[pʁɛˈlaːtn̩]/ noun

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The verdict

“Prälaten” is uncommon German (frequency #64,625 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#64,625
frequency rank, German
3,409
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Prälat

Corpus desk

Index DE-pralaten · Prälaten · German

Prälaten · rank #64,625 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #64,625
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,409
  • PHOTO-FINISH punktuelle

Nearest frequency peer: punktuelle (+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 „Prälaten“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Prälaten
PropertyValue
HeadwordPrälaten
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[pʁɛˈlaːtn̩]
Letters8
Frequency rank#64,625
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Prälaten“ im Deutschen

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

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

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „punktuelle“ (#64,626), „Projektleiterin“ (#64,623), „Pupille“ (#64,627). Unter 3,409 „P“-Lemmata liegt „Prälaten“ bei #64,625. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Prälaten is uncommon German at frequency #64,625 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [pʁɛˈlaːtn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.

Prälaten has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Prälaten, spelled P-R-Ä-L-A-T-E-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Prälat
  2. 2
    Dativ Singular des Substantivs Prälat
  3. 3
    Akkusativ Singular des Substantivs Prälat
  4. 4
    Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Prälat
  5. 5
    Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Prälat
  6. 6
    Dativ Plural des Substantivs Prälat
  7. 7
    Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Prälat

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 "Prälaten"?
"Prälaten" is spelled P-R-Ä-L-A-T-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [pʁɛˈlaːtn̩].
What does "Prälaten" mean?
As a noun, "Prälaten" means: Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Prälat
How do you pronounce "Prälaten"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Prälaten" is [pʁɛˈlaːtn̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Prälaten" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

primärer#64,621Quadrant#64,629rasender#64,631Polymere#64,613

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list