Balkans
[ˈbalkaːns]
The verdict
“Balkans” is uncommon German (frequency #76,539 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,539
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Balkan
Corpus desk
Index DE-balkans · Balkans · German
Balkans · rank #76,539 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,539
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bahnnetz
Nearest frequency peer: Bahnnetz (-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 „Balkans“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Backwerk
Backwerk
23,465 corpus weight
- Bahnhofspla…
Bahnhofsplatz
23,464 corpus weight
- Bahnnetz
Bahnnetz
23,463 corpus weight
- Balkans
Balkans
23,462 corpus weight
- baller
baller
23,461 corpus weight
- Ballungsräu…
Ballungsräume
23,460 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Balkans“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Balkans |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbalkaːns] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,539 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Balkans“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Balkans is uncommon German at frequency #76,539 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈbalkaːns]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Balkan".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Balkans in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Balkans, spelled B-A-L-K-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Balkan
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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