Zettelchen
[ˈt͡sɛtl̩çən]
The verdict
“Zettelchen” is uncommon German (frequency #86,088 among 1,996 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,088
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kleiner Zettel
Corpus desk
Index DE-zettelchen · Zettelchen · German
Zettelchen · rank #86,088 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,088
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH zerrieben
Nearest frequency peer: zerrieben (-1 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Zettelchen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Zerfalls
Zerfalls
13,916 corpus weight
- zerplatzen
zerplatzen
13,915 corpus weight
- zerrieben
zerrieben
13,914 corpus weight
- Zettelchen
Zettelchen
13,913 corpus weight
- Zielfernrohr
Zielfernrohr
13,912 corpus weight
- zivilisiert…
zivilisierter
13,911 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Zettelchen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zettelchen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡sɛtl̩çən] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #86,088 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Zettelchen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Zettelchen is uncommon German at frequency #86,088 among 1,996 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈt͡sɛtl̩çən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "kleiner Zettel".
No misspelling variants are generated for Zettelchen in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Zettelchen, spelled Z-E-T-T-E-L-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1kleiner Zettel
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Zettelchen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Manche Vermieter sind vom Ukaswahn besessen und verständigen sich mit erzieherischen Zettelchen, andere erlassen Verordnungen in Blockschrift, die sie mit Reißnägeln im WC und in der Diele befestigen.“
„Sie las den Zettel dreimal und wollte ihn dann in die Schachtel stecken, die sie stets mit sich herumtrug und in der sie eine Menge ähnlicher Zettelchen, kleiner Botschaften und lustiger Mitteilungen aufbewahrte, die Eiríkur im Lauf der letzten Jahre hier und da hinterlassen hatte.“
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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