Selbstbehalt
[ˈzɛlpstbəˌhalt]
The verdict
“Selbstbehalt” is uncommon German (frequency #76,157 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,157
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - dem Versicherungsnehmer nicht erstattete Kosten
Corpus desk
Index DE-selbstbehalt · Selbstbehalt · German
Selbstbehalt · rank #76,157 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,157
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sekretariats
Nearest frequency peer: Sekretariats (-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 „Selbstbehalt“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Seils
Seils
23,847 corpus weight
- Sekretariats
Sekretariats
23,845 corpus weight
- Selbstbehalt
Selbstbehalt
23,844 corpus weight
- Selbsterfah…
Selbsterfahrung
23,843 corpus weight
- selbstverst…
selbstverständlicher
23,842 corpus weight
- Selbstzensur
Selbstzensur
23,841 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Selbstbehalt“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Selbstbehalt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzɛlpstbəˌhalt] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #76,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Selbstbehalt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Selbstbehalt is uncommon German at frequency #76,157 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈzɛlpstbəˌhalt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "dem Versicherungsnehmer nicht erstattete Kosten".
Selbstbehalt doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Selbstbehalt, spelled S-E-L-B-S-T-B-E-H-A-L-T.
Definition
- 1dem Versicherungsnehmer nicht erstattete Kosten
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Selbstbehalt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Nach dem Versicherungsvertrag war ein Selbstbehalt von 20% vereinbart, der nicht nur die Kosten des eigenen Anwalts (des Klägers), sondern die gesamten Verfahrenskosten erfasste.“
Synonyms
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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