Reinkarnation
[ˌʁeʔɪnkaʁnaˈt͡si̯oːn]
The verdict
“Reinkarnation” is an uncommon German word, ranked #50,830 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #50,830
- frequency rank, German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - erneuter Übergang der Seele nach dem Sterben des Körpers zu einem materiellen Wesen; Wiedergeburt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Reinkarnation |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌʁeʔɪnkaʁnaˈt͡si̯oːn] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #50,830 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Reinkarnation” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Reinkarnation is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌʁeʔɪnkaʁnaˈt͡si̯oːn]. Corpus data places it at rank #50,830 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Reinkarnation in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 Reinkarnation, spelled R-E-I-N-K-A-R-N-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1erneuter Übergang der Seele nach dem Sterben des Körpers zu einem materiellen Wesen; Wiedergeburt
- 2Individuum, das durch die Wiedergeburt [1] mit einer Seele eines bereits verstorbenen Menschen geboren wurde
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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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Using “Reinkarnation”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is R-E-I-N-K-A-R-N-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.