asylum
The verdict
“asylum” is uncommon German (frequency #51,932 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,932
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ort, an dem Verbrechern und Bedürftigen Schutz gewährt wird; Asyl, Freistätte, Zufluchtsstätte
Corpus desk
Index DE-asylum · asylum · German
asylum · rank #51,932 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,932
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH armseligen
Nearest frequency peer: armseligen (-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 „asylum“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Archivierung
Archivierung
48,072 corpus weight
- Arithmetik
Arithmetik
48,071 corpus weight
- armseligen
armseligen
48,070 corpus weight
- asylum
asylum
48,069 corpus weight
- Athletin
Athletin
48,068 corpus weight
- aufgetan
aufgetan
48,067 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „asylum“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asylum |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „asylum“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
asylum is uncommon German at frequency #51,932 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ort, an dem Verbrechern und Bedürftigen Schutz gewährt wird; Asyl, Freistätte, Zufluchtsstätte".
asylum has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 asylum, spelled A-S-Y-L-U-M.
Definition
- 1Ort, an dem Verbrechern und Bedürftigen Schutz gewährt wird; Asyl, Freistätte, Zufluchtsstätte
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how asylum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Nuper M. Aurelio Scauro postulante, quod is Ephesi se quaestorem vi prohibitum esse dicebat quo minus e fano Dianae servum suum, qui in illud asylum confugisset, abduceret, Pericles Ephesius, homo nobilissimus, Romam evocatus est, quod auctor illius iniuriae fuisse arguebatur:“ (Cic. Ver. 1, 85)
„hinc lucum ingentem, quem Romulus acer asylum / rettulit, et gelida monstrat sub rupe Lupercal / Parrhasio dictum Panos de more Lycaei.“ (Verg. Aen. 8, 342–344)
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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