Tanzkurs

/[ˈtant͡sˌkʊʁs]/ noun

The verdict

“Tanzkurs” is an uncommon German word, ranked #65,754 in German word frequency and used as a noun.

#65,754
frequency rank, German
8
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Unterricht über einen bestimmten Zeitraum, der dem Aufbau oder der Verbesserung der Tanzkenntnisse der Kursteilnehmer dient

Key facts for Tanzkurs
PropertyValue
HeadwordTanzkurs
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈtant͡sˌkʊʁs]
Letters8
Frequency rank#65,754
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Tanzkurs” sits in German frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Tanzkurs lands here:

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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Tanzkurs is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈtant͡sˌkʊʁs]. Corpus data places it at rank #65,754 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Unterricht über einen bestimmten Zeitraum, der dem Aufbau oder der Verbesserung der Tanzkenntnisse der Kursteilnehmer dient".

No misspelling variants are generated for Tanzkurs in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Tanzkurs, spelled T-A-N-Z-K-U-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Unterricht über einen bestimmten Zeitraum, der dem Aufbau oder der Verbesserung der Tanzkenntnisse der Kursteilnehmer dient

Synonyms

Frequency rank: #65,754 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Tanzkurs"?
"Tanzkurs" is spelled T-A-N-Z-K-U-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈtant͡sˌkʊʁs].
What does "Tanzkurs" mean?
As a noun, "Tanzkurs" means: Unterricht über einen bestimmten Zeitraum, der dem Aufbau oder der Verbesserung der Tanzkenntnisse der Kursteilnehmer dient
How do you pronounce "Tanzkurs"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Tanzkurs" is [ˈtant͡sˌkʊʁs]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Tanzkurs" come from?
"Tanzkurs" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “Tanzkurs”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is T-A-N-Z-K-U-R-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [ˈtant͡sˌkʊʁs] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Nearby German words

Other entries that begin with the letter T in our German index:

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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.