Chennai
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The verdict
“Chennai” is uncommon German (frequency #76,640 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,640
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hauptstadt des indischen Bundesstaates Tamil Nadu
Corpus desk
Index DE-chennai · Chennai · German
Chennai · rank #76,640 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,640
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH chien
Nearest frequency peer: chien (+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 „Chennai“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- CEN
CEN
23,365 corpus weight
- cert
cert
23,363 corpus weight
- Chennai
Chennai
23,361 corpus weight
- chien
chien
23,360 corpus weight
- choke
choke
23,359 corpus weight
- clothes
clothes
23,357 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Chennai“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chennai |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Chennai“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Chennai is uncommon German at frequency #76,640 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hauptstadt des indischen Bundesstaates Tamil Nadu".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Chennai in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Chennai, spelled C-H-E-N-N-A-I.
Definition
- 1Hauptstadt des indischen Bundesstaates Tamil Nadu
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Chennai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„›Aber deinen Rat, wie ich mit dem indischen Volk sprechen soll, den brauche ich nicht. Wenn ich auf deinen politischen Rat gehört hätte, hätten sie mich niemals zum Hundefänger von Chennai gewählt.‹“
Synonyms
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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