Blackburn
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The verdict
“Blackburn” is uncommon German (frequency #77,762 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,762
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stadt im Nordwesten von England
Corpus desk
Index DE-blackburn · Blackburn · German
Blackburn · rank #77,762 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,762
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bleibendes
Nearest frequency peer: bleibendes (+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 „Blackburn“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Bigfoot
Bigfoot
22,243 corpus weight
- Bildwerke
Bildwerke
22,241 corpus weight
- Blackburn
Blackburn
22,239 corpus weight
- bleibendes
bleibendes
22,238 corpus weight
- Blutrache
Blutrache
22,236 corpus weight
- Bluttransfu…
Bluttransfusion
22,235 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Blackburn“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Blackburn |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Blackburn“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Blackburn is uncommon German at frequency #77,762 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Stadt im Nordwesten von England".
Blackburn has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Blackburn, spelled B-L-A-C-K-B-U-R-N.
Definition
- 1Stadt im Nordwesten von England
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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