Zielperson
[ˈt͡siːlpɛʁˌzoːn]
The verdict
“Zielperson” is uncommon German (frequency #71,023 among 37,643 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,023
- frequency rank, German
- 37,643
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Person, welche das Ziel einer Aktion ist
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zielperson |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡siːlpɛʁˌzoːn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,023 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Zielperson” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Zielperson is uncommon German at frequency #71,023 among 37,643 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈt͡siːlpɛʁˌzoːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Person, welche das Ziel einer Aktion ist".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Zielperson, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Zielperson, spelled Z-I-E-L-P-E-R-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Person, welche das Ziel einer Aktion ist
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 “Zielperson”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is Z-I-E-L-P-E-R-S-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈt͡siːlpɛʁˌzoːn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.