Charon
[ˈçaːʁɔn]
The verdict
“Charon” is uncommon German (frequency #79,017 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,017
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in der griechischen, später auch römischen Sage der Fährmann, der die Toten/die Seelen der Toten über einen Fluss zum Eingang in die Unterwelt bringt
Corpus desk
Index DE-charon · Charon · German
Charon · rank #79,017 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,017
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Chemieindustr…
Nearest frequency peer: Chemieindustrie (+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 „Charon“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Caspers
Caspers
20,987 corpus weight
- Charon
Charon
20,984 corpus weight
- Chemieindus…
Chemieindustrie
20,983 corpus weight
- Choreografi…
Choreografien
20,982 corpus weight
- Choräle
Choräle
20,981 corpus weight
- Chuzpe
Chuzpe
20,980 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Charon“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Charon |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈçaːʁɔn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,017 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Charon“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Charon is uncommon German at frequency #79,017 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈçaːʁɔn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Charon in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Charon, spelled C-H-A-R-O-N.
Definition
- 1in der griechischen, später auch römischen Sage der Fährmann, der die Toten/die Seelen der Toten über einen Fluss zum Eingang in die Unterwelt bringt
- 2größter der fünf bekannten Plutomonde
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Charon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Äneas, welcher, um seinen Vater Anchises zu sehen, zu den Schatten stieg, hörte, sobald er, vom Charon über den Fluß gesetzt, am jenseitigen Ufer ausstieg, das Geschrei und Weinen der Kinder, die gleich nach ihrer Geburt gestorben waren, ohne des süßen Lebens genossen zu haben.“
„Die ersten Bilder, die Pluto und Charon als zwei separate Körper zeigten, gelangen in den 1990er Jahren mit dem Hubble-Weltraumteleskop.“
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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