therapeutischer Clown
[ˌteʁaˌpɔɪ̯tɪʃɐ ˈklaʊ̯n]
The verdict
“therapeutischer Clown” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — therapeutisch speziell angelernte Person, die, in der Rolle eines Clowns, in Einrichtungen des Gesundheits- (Krankenhäuser, Psychiatrien) und Pflegewesens (Altenheime, Hospize, Pflegeheime) die Pat...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | therapeutischer Clown |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌteʁaˌpɔɪ̯tɪʃɐ ˈklaʊ̯n] |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “therapeutischer Clown” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for therapeutischer Clown is 21 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌteʁaˌpɔɪ̯tɪʃɐ ˈklaʊ̯n]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "therapeutisch speziell angelernte Person, die, in der Rolle eines Clowns, in Einrichtungen des Gesundheits- (Krankenhäuser, Psychiatrien) und Pflegewesens (Altenheime, Hospize, Pflegeheime) die Pat...".
No misspelling variants are generated for therapeutischer Clown 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 therapeutischer Clown, spelled T-H-E-R-A-P-E-U-T-I-S-C-H-E-R- -C-L-O-W-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1therapeutisch speziell angelernte Person, die, in der Rolle eines Clowns, in Einrichtungen des Gesundheits- (Krankenhäuser, Psychiatrien) und Pflegewesens (Altenheime, Hospize, Pflegeheime) die Patienten und (Pflege- und Altenheim-)Bewohner regelmäßig humoristisch betreut, um ihre Heilung und/oder ihr Befinden zu begünstigen
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- The one correct German spelling is T-H-E-R-A-P-E-U-T-I-S-C-H-E-R- -C-L-O-W-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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