Reiki

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The verdict

“Reiki” is uncommon German (frequency #57,352 among 2,984 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#57,352
frequency rank, German
2,984
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - japanische Behandlungsform, bei der meist durch Auflegen der Hände die universelle Lebensenergie aktiviert, verstärkt oder auch übertragen werden soll

Corpus desk

Index DE-reiki · Reiki · German

Reiki · rank #57,352 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #57,352
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,984
  • PHOTO-FINISH rehabilitieren

Nearest frequency peer: rehabilitieren (-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 „Reiki“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Reiki
PropertyValue
HeadwordReiki
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters5
Frequency rank#57,352
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Reiki“ im Deutschen

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

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

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „rehabilitieren“ (#57,351), „reingelegt“ (#57,353), „Regierungssitz“ (#57,350). Unter 2,984 „R“-Lemmata liegt „Reiki“ bei #57,352. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Reiki is uncommon German at frequency #57,352 among 2,984 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "japanische Behandlungsform, bei der meist durch Auflegen der Hände die universelle Lebensenergie aktiviert, verstärkt oder auch übertragen werden soll".

Zero misspellings are on record for Reiki in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Reiki, spelled R-E-I-K-I.

Definition

  1. 1
    japanische Behandlungsform, bei der meist durch Auflegen der Hände die universelle Lebensenergie aktiviert, verstärkt oder auch übertragen werden soll

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. „An Volkshochschulen wird Reiki gelehrt, Heilen durch Handauflegen.“
  2. Doch vor allem ist Reiki eine Begegnung mit sich selbst, wie Peter Michael Dieckmann in diesem Buch anhand seiner persönlichen Erfahrungen überzeugend darlegt.

This word in other languages

reiki(English)

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 "Reiki"?
"Reiki" is spelled R-E-I-K-I. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "Reiki" mean?
As a noun, "Reiki" means: japanische Behandlungsform, bei der meist durch Auflegen der Hände die universelle Lebensenergie aktiviert, verstärkt oder auch übertragen werden soll
How do you pronounce "Reiki"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Reiki" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Reiki" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Ritze#57,364Quito#57,338quiet#57,336rühmt#57,372

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list