tollkühn
[ˈtɔlˌkyːn]
The verdict
“tollkühn” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Charaktereigenschaft eines Menschen: äußerst wagnisbereite und risikofreudige Person
Corpus desk
Index DE-tollkuhn · tollkühn · German
tollkühn · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" 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 | tollkühn |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈtɔlˌkyːn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „tollkühn“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
tollkühn is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈtɔlˌkyːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
tollkühn doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is tollkühn, spelled T-O-L-L-K-Ü-H-N.
Definition
- 1Charaktereigenschaft eines Menschen: äußerst wagnisbereite und risikofreudige Person
- 2Charakteristikum einer Sache: waghalsige Unternehmung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tollkühn appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die sechsjährige Romy klettert, wie es ihre Art ist, wieder einmal tollkühn auf einen Baum, unter ihr das Wasser.“
„Waghalsigkeit […] ist in unserer sicherheitsorientierten Zeit als Vabanque-Spiel verpönt; sie trägt den Makel tollkühnen, d.h. verrückt-verantwortungslosen Handelns und findet sich nicht selten in den Mutproben Jugendlicher.“
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.