Kraut
/kɹaʊt/
"kraut" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Kraut” is uncommon English (frequency #60,917 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,917
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A German.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kraut · Kraut · English
Kraut · rank #60,917 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,917
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Krasnodar
Nearest frequency peer: Krasnodar (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Kraut”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Kirkby
Kirkby
39,091 corpus weight
- kish
kish
39,089 corpus weight
- Krasnodar
Krasnodar
39,085 corpus weight
- Kraut
Kraut
39,084 corpus weight
- Kumasi
Kumasi
39,082 corpus weight
- lactobacill…
lactobacillus
39,080 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Kraut” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kraut |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɹaʊt/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Kraut” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Kraut is uncommon English at frequency #60,917 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɹaʊt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A German.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Kraut in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From German Kraut (“cabbage”), alluding to the use of cabbage as an ingredient in German cuisine (namely sauerkraut). First use appears c. 1833-1837, but popularized during the First and Second World Wars. The correct English form is Kraut, spelled K-R-A-U-T.
Definition
- 1A German.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Kraut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Those Krauts can't hurt you anymore. The only ones left are dead or dying.
Etymology
From German Kraut (“cabbage”), alluding to the use of cabbage as an ingredient in German cuisine (namely sauerkraut). First use appears c. 1833-1837, but popularized during the First and Second World Wars.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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