Tycoon
[taɪ̯ˈkuːn]
The verdict
“Tycoon” is an uncommon German word, ranked #55,780 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #55,780
- frequency rank, German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Inhaber eines Unternehmens mit großem Einfluss auf die Wirtschaft
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tycoon |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [taɪ̯ˈkuːn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Tycoon” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Tycoon is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [taɪ̯ˈkuːn]. Corpus data places it at rank #55,780 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Inhaber eines Unternehmens mit großem Einfluss auf die Wirtschaft".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Tycoon, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Tycoon, spelled T-Y-C-O-O-N.
Definition
- 1Inhaber eines Unternehmens mit großem Einfluss auf die Wirtschaft
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); 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 “Tycoon”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is T-Y-C-O-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [taɪ̯ˈkuːn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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.