skeleton
[skelɪtn]
The verdict
“skeleton” is uncommon German (frequency #69,702 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,702
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Skelett, Knochengerippe
Corpus desk
Index DE-skeleton · skeleton · German
skeleton · rank #69,702 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,702
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sima
Nearest frequency peer: sima (-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 „skeleton“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Siebold
Siebold
30,304 corpus weight
- Siegels
Siegels
30,303 corpus weight
- sima
sima
30,300 corpus weight
- skeleton
skeleton
30,299 corpus weight
- Skilanglauf
Skilanglauf
30,297 corpus weight
- sleeping
sleeping
30,295 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „skeleton“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | skeleton |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [skelɪtn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „skeleton“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
skeleton is uncommon German at frequency #69,702 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [skelɪtn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Skelett, Knochengerippe".
skeleton doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 skeleton, spelled S-K-E-L-E-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Skelett, Knochengerippe
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how skeleton appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The skeleton walked from the graveyard to the castle.
This word in other languages
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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