For the first time in German, a C/V asymmetry in familiar word processing is found at 3-5 years of age. Our findings parallel evidence of a lexicon-consonant association found in infants as young as one year old in Spanish (Bouchon et al., 2022), Italian (Hochmann et al., 2017) and French (Nishibayashi & Nazzi, 2016). Neither vocabulary size nor phonological awareness were associated with children’s consonant bias leaving it open in how far lexicon size and/or phonological sensitivity contribute to the bias.