Privatklinik
[pʁiˈvaːtˌkliːnɪk]
The verdict
“Privatklinik” is uncommon German (frequency #62,752 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,752
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Klinik in Privatbesitz (statt in öffentlicher Trägerschaft)
Corpus desk
Index DE-privatklinik · Privatklinik · German
Privatklinik · rank #62,752 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,752
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH profanen
Nearest frequency peer: profanen (+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 „Privatklinik“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Pornodarste…
Pornodarsteller
37,253 corpus weight
- Preissenkung
Preissenkung
37,252 corpus weight
- prequel
prequel
37,251 corpus weight
- Privatklinik
Privatklinik
37,249 corpus weight
- profanen
profanen
37,248 corpus weight
- prophylakti…
prophylaktisch
37,246 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Privatklinik“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Privatklinik |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pʁiˈvaːtˌkliːnɪk] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #62,752 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Privatklinik“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Privatklinik is uncommon German at frequency #62,752 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [pʁiˈvaːtˌkliːnɪk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Privatklinik, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Privatklinik, spelled P-R-I-V-A-T-K-L-I-N-I-K.
Definition
- 1Klinik in Privatbesitz (statt in öffentlicher Trägerschaft)
- 2Klinik, deren Leistungen „privat“ vom Patienten bezahlt werden, da diese in der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung ausgenommen sind
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Privatklinik appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Privatkliniken haben eigene Ambulanzen.“
„Nachdem wir eine Nacht lang bei Dunning gesessen und auf den Tod gewartet hatten, wurde die Angelegenheit schließlich einem Arzt übergeben, und Dunning wurde zur Entgiftung in eine Privatklinik gebracht.“
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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