Calau
[ˈkaːlaʊ̯]
The verdict
“Calau” is uncommon German (frequency #67,085 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,085
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Stadt in Brandenburg, Deutschland
Corpus desk
Index DE-calau · Calau · German
Calau · rank #67,085 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,085
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Castings
Nearest frequency peer: Castings (+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 „Calau“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Burgers
Burgers
32,921 corpus weight
- Bäuerinnen
Bäuerinnen
32,919 corpus weight
- Calau
Calau
32,916 corpus weight
- Castings
Castings
32,915 corpus weight
- Cellulose
Cellulose
32,914 corpus weight
- Chars
Chars
32,912 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Calau“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Calau“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Calau is uncommon German at frequency #67,085 among 1,273 “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
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Calau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Calau liegt in Deutschlands Osten.
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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