Teilzeitarbeit
[ˈtaɪ̯lt͡saɪ̯tˌʔaʁbaɪ̯t]
The verdict
“Teilzeitarbeit” is an uncommon German word, ranked #61,980 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #61,980
- frequency rank, German
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Beschäftigung in einem Arbeitsverhältnis, bei der nicht die volle Arbeitszeit gearbeitet wird
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Teilzeitarbeit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtaɪ̯lt͡saɪ̯tˌʔaʁbaɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #61,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Teilzeitarbeit” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Teilzeitarbeit is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈtaɪ̯lt͡saɪ̯tˌʔaʁbaɪ̯t]. Corpus data places it at rank #61,980 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Beschäftigung in einem Arbeitsverhältnis, bei der nicht die volle Arbeitszeit gearbeitet wird".
Teilzeitarbeit has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Teilzeitarbeit, spelled T-E-I-L-Z-E-I-T-A-R-B-E-I-T.
Definition
- 1Beschäftigung in einem Arbeitsverhältnis, bei der nicht die volle Arbeitszeit gearbeitet wird
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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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Using “Teilzeitarbeit”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is T-E-I-L-Z-E-I-T-A-R-B-E-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.