Arendsee
[ˈaːʁɛntzeː]
The verdict
“Arendsee” is uncommon German (frequency #76,504 among 113,935 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,504
- frequency rank, German
- 113,935
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine Stadt in Sachsen-Anhalt, Deutschland
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Arendsee |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈaːʁɛntzeː] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,504 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Arendsee” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Arendsee is uncommon German at frequency #76,504 among 113,935 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈaːʁɛntzeː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Arendsee, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 Arendsee, spelled A-R-E-N-D-S-E-E.
Definition
- 1eine Stadt in Sachsen-Anhalt, Deutschland
- 2Gemeindeteil von Nordwestuckermark, Brandenburg, Deutschland
- 3Wohnplatz in Wandlitz, Brandenburg, Deutschland
- 4ehemaliger Ortsteil von Kühlungsborn, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Deutschland
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 “Arendsee”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-R-E-N-D-S-E-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.