candida

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The verdict

“candida” is uncommon German (frequency #55,219 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,219
frequency rank, German
1,273
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - weiß

Corpus desk

Index DE-candida · candida · German

candida · rank #55,219 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,219
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,273
  • PHOTO-FINISH camino

Nearest frequency peer: camino (-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 „candida“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „candida“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for candida
PropertyValue
Headwordcandida
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[…]
Letters7
Frequency rank#55,219
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „candida“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).candidafällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „camino“ (#55,218), „chairman“ (#55,221), „Caen“ (#55,216). Unter 1,273 „C“-Lemmata liegt „candida“ bei #55,219. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

candida is uncommon German at frequency #55,219 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "weiß".

No misspelling variants are generated for candida in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 candida, spelled C-A-N-D-I-D-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    weiß

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "candida"?
"candida" is spelled C-A-N-D-I-D-A. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "candida" mean?
As an adjective, "candida" means: weiß
How do you pronounce "candida"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "candida" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "candida" come from?
"candida" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "candida", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list