Quintenschritt
[ˈkvɪntn̩ˌʃʁɪt]
The verdict
“Quintenschritt” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Intervall, das fünf Töne der diatonischen Tonleiter umspannt
Corpus desk
Index DE-quintenschritt · Quintenschritt · German
Quintenschritt · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Q" 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 | Quintenschritt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkvɪntn̩ˌʃʁɪt] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Quintenschritt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Quintenschritt is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkvɪntn̩ˌʃʁɪt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Intervall, das fünf Töne der diatonischen Tonleiter umspannt".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Quintenschritt, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists 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 Quintenschritt, spelled Q-U-I-N-T-E-N-S-C-H-R-I-T-T.
Definition
- 1Intervall, das fünf Töne der diatonischen Tonleiter umspannt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Quintenschritt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Geht man vom mittleren C aus und macht sechs Quintenschritte nach oben, dann landet man beim Ton Fis.“
Synonyms
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.