Sektionschef
[zɛkˈt͡si̯oːnsˌʃɛf]
The verdict
“Sektionschef” is uncommon German (frequency #88,274 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,274
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein hoher Beamtentitel
Corpus desk
Index DE-sektionschef · Sektionschef · German
Sektionschef · rank #88,274 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,274
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH seek
Nearest frequency peer: seek (-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 „Sektionschef“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Seehafen
Seehafen
11,729 corpus weight
- seek
seek
11,728 corpus weight
- Sektionschef
Sektionschef
11,727 corpus weight
- selbstgerec…
selbstgerecht
11,726 corpus weight
- Selbstlosig…
Selbstlosigkeit
11,725 corpus weight
- Selektivität
Selektivität
11,724 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Sektionschef“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sektionschef |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [zɛkˈt͡si̯oːnsˌʃɛf] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #88,274 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Sektionschef“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Sektionschef is uncommon German at frequency #88,274 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [zɛkˈt͡si̯oːnsˌʃɛf]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ein hoher Beamtentitel".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Sektionschef in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Sektionschef, spelled S-E-K-T-I-O-N-S-C-H-E-F.
Definition
- 1ein hoher Beamtentitel
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sektionschef appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„In den heimischen Ministerien sind Sektionschefs die ranghöchsten Beamten; sie unterstehen nur dem Bundesminister selbst - eigentlich.“
„[Ferdinand Käs] leitete bis 1963 als Oberstleutnant die Gendarmerieschule und war 1963-1979 im Innenministerium tätig (ging als Sektionschef in Pension).“
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).