Caldera
[kalˈdeːʁa]
The verdict
“Caldera” is uncommon German (frequency #98,257 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,257
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kesselförmige Struktur vulkanischen Ursprungs
Corpus desk
Index DE-caldera · Caldera · German
Caldera · rank #98,257 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,257
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH campion
Nearest frequency peer: campion (+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 „Caldera“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Bürozeiten
Bürozeiten
1,749 corpus weight
- Büstenhalter
Büstenhalter
1,748 corpus weight
- Caldera
Caldera
1,744 corpus weight
- campion
campion
1,743 corpus weight
- canale
canale
1,742 corpus weight
- Carpaccio
Carpaccio
1,738 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Caldera“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Caldera |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kalˈdeːʁa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #98,257 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Caldera“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Caldera is uncommon German at frequency #98,257 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kalˈdeːʁa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "kesselförmige Struktur vulkanischen Ursprungs".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Caldera, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Caldera, spelled C-A-L-D-E-R-A.
Definition
- 1kesselförmige Struktur vulkanischen Ursprungs
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Caldera appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Zu den bedeutendsten Calderen gehören die des Teide (Teneriffa), der Tobasee (Sumatra), die Yellowstone-Caldera (USA) und die Caldera der Inselgruppe Santorin.
„Die kreisrunde Bucht ist eine überflutete Caldera mit nur einer natürlichen Einfahrt, weshalb sie den sichersten Hafen der Region bietet.“
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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