Astrachan
[ˈastʁaxan]
The verdict
“Astrachan” is an uncommon German word, ranked #95,275 in German word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #95,275
- frequency rank, German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Großstadt im Wolgadelta in Russland
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Astrachan |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈastʁaxan] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,275 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Astrachan” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Astrachan is 9 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈastʁaxan]. Corpus data places it at rank #95,275 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Großstadt im Wolgadelta in Russland".
Astrachan doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Astrachan, spelled A-S-T-R-A-C-H-A-N.
Definition
- 1Großstadt im Wolgadelta in Russland
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Astrachan”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-S-T-R-A-C-H-A-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈastʁaxan] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.