Kristallnacht
"kristallnacht" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Kristallnacht” is uncommon English (frequency #65,247 among 9,255 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,247
- frequency rank, English
- 9,255
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The night of November 9–10, 1938, when a state-organized night of terror was staged against Jews in Germany and Austria.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kristallnacht · Kristallnacht · English
Kristallnacht · rank #65,247 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,247
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 9,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Krasinski
Nearest frequency peer: Krasinski (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Kristallnacht”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Komi
Komi
34,758 corpus weight
- Kozak
Kozak
34,756 corpus weight
- Krasinski
Krasinski
34,755 corpus weight
- Kristallnac…
Kristallnacht
34,754 corpus weight
- Kron
Kron
34,753 corpus weight
- Kucinich
Kucinich
34,752 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Kristallnacht” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kristallnacht |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #65,247 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Kristallnacht” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Kristallnacht is uncommon English at frequency #65,247 among 9,255 “K” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The night of November 9–10, 1938, when a state-organized night of terror was staged against Jews in Germany and Austria.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Kristallnacht in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Unadapted borrowing from German Kristallnacht (“night of broken glass”, literally “crystal night”). The correct English form is Kristallnacht, spelled K-R-I-S-T-A-L-L-N-A-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1The night of November 9–10, 1938, when a state-organized night of terror was staged against Jews in Germany and Austria.
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from German Kristallnacht (“night of broken glass”, literally “crystal night”).
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.