Bonanza
[boˈnant͡sa]
The verdict
“Bonanza” is uncommon German (frequency #83,769 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,769
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - besonders ertragreiche Lagerstätte (Mine, Erdöl- beziehungsweise Erdgasfeld); ergiebiges Vorkommen von Rohstoffen
Corpus desk
Index DE-bonanza · Bonanza · German
Bonanza · rank #83,769 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,769
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH boing
Nearest frequency peer: boing (-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 „Bonanza“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Bobingen
Bobingen
16,237 corpus weight
- boing
boing
16,233 corpus weight
- Bonanza
Bonanza
16,232 corpus weight
- boomenden
boomenden
16,231 corpus weight
- Botschaftern
Botschaftern
16,228 corpus weight
- Braunbären
Braunbären
16,227 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Bonanza“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bonanza |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [boˈnant͡sa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,769 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Bonanza“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Bonanza is uncommon German at frequency #83,769 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [boˈnant͡sa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Bonanza doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Bonanza, spelled B-O-N-A-N-Z-A.
Definition
- 1besonders ertragreiche Lagerstätte (Mine, Erdöl- beziehungsweise Erdgasfeld); ergiebiges Vorkommen von Rohstoffen
- 2etwas (Geschäft, Unternehmen oder dergleichen), das sehr profitabel ist oder großen Profit erwarten lässt; sich plötzlich auftuende Quelle des Reichtums, Wohlstands, Glücks; unerwarteter Geldregen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bonanza appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
bildlich: „Wie Gold-Digger in eine Bonanza, so wirbelte die Menge ins Weiße Haus, trampelte mit Cowboy-Stiefeln über die Perser, zerschmiß das Porzellan und riß die Gardinen von den Fenstern.“
„Sambia hat viele Sorgen mit seiner Bonanza im Copperbelt.“
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).