Spielkarte
[ˈʃpiːlˌkaʁtə]
The verdict
“Spielkarte” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Karte, die in einem Spiel eine bestimmte Information und/oder Bedeutung trägt
Corpus desk
Index DE-spielkarte · Spielkarte · German
Spielkarte · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Spielkarte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃpiːlˌkaʁtə] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Spielkarte“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Spielkarte is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃpiːlˌkaʁtə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Karte, die in einem Spiel eine bestimmte Information und/oder Bedeutung trägt".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Spielkarte in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 Spielkarte, spelled S-P-I-E-L-K-A-R-T-E.
Definition
- 1Karte, die in einem Spiel eine bestimmte Information und/oder Bedeutung trägt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Spielkarte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das Ass ist in vielen Spielen die höchste Spielkarte.
„Jón Marteinsson bat die Frau um Spielkarten oder Würfel.“
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.