Zahnreinigung
[ˈt͡saːnˌʁaɪ̯nɪɡʊŋ]
The verdict
“Zahnreinigung” is uncommon German (frequency #91,172 among 37,643 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,172
- frequency rank, German
- 37,643
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Maßnahme, bei der man (meist täglich mehrmals) sein Gebiss reinigt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zahnreinigung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡saːnˌʁaɪ̯nɪɡʊŋ] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #91,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Zahnreinigung” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Zahnreinigung is uncommon German at frequency #91,172 among 37,643 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈt͡saːnˌʁaɪ̯nɪɡʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Zahnreinigung, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Zahnreinigung, spelled Z-A-H-N-R-E-I-N-I-G-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Maßnahme, bei der man (meist täglich mehrmals) sein Gebiss reinigt
- 2Maßnahme, bei der ein Zahnarzthelfer / eine Zahnarzthelferin das Gebiss eines Kunden professionell reinigt
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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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is Z-A-H-N-R-E-I-N-I-G-U-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.