Alamo
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The verdict
“Alamo” is uncommon German (frequency #81,246 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,246
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fort in der texanischen Stadt San Antonio
Corpus desk
Index DE-alamo · Alamo · German
Alamo · rank #81,246 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,246
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Alarmsignal
Nearest frequency peer: Alarmsignal (+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 „Alamo“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Adverb
Adverb
18,758 corpus weight
- Aerosole
Aerosole
18,757 corpus weight
- Alamo
Alamo
18,755 corpus weight
- Alarmsignal
Alarmsignal
18,754 corpus weight
- Aleksander
Aleksander
18,753 corpus weight
- Alkoholgenu…
Alkoholgenuss
18,752 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Alamo“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Alamo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,246 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Alamo“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Alamo is uncommon German at frequency #81,246 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fort in der texanischen Stadt San Antonio".
Alamo has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Alamo, spelled A-L-A-M-O.
Definition
- 1Fort in der texanischen Stadt San Antonio
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Alamo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Situationen wie bei der Schlacht von Alamo hatten ihm noch nie gefallen.“
„Pedro hatte erst lamentiert: ›Mrs Landis würde das nicht gutheißen‹, aber Jack hatte ihm in Erinnerung gerufen, dass Mrs Landis nicht da war, um ihm seinen mexikanischen Arsch zu retten, falls er auf die Idee kommen sollte, sich für die Schlacht von Alamo rächen zu wollen.“
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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