Calau
[ˈkaːlaʊ̯]
The verdict
“Calau” is uncommon German (frequency #67,085 among 20,081 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,085
- frequency rank, German
- 20,081
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine Stadt in Brandenburg, Deutschland
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Calau |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaːlaʊ̯] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,085 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Calau” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Calau is uncommon German at frequency #67,085 among 20,081 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈkaːlaʊ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Stadt in Brandenburg, Deutschland".
Zero misspellings are on record for Calau in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Calau, spelled C-A-L-A-U.
Definition
- 1eine Stadt in Brandenburg, Deutschland
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 “Calau”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is C-A-L-A-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.