chestnut
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The verdict
“chestnut” is uncommon German (frequency #90,093 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,093
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein Pferd mit der Fellfarbe „Fuchs“
Corpus desk
Index DE-chestnut · chestnut · German
chestnut · rank #90,093 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,093
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Chemikerin
Nearest frequency peer: Chemikerin (-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 „chestnut“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- cella
cella
9,912 corpus weight
- Charakterzug
Charakterzug
9,911 corpus weight
- Chemikerin
Chemikerin
9,909 corpus weight
- chestnut
chestnut
9,908 corpus weight
- Chorherr
Chorherr
9,906 corpus weight
- Clemente
Clemente
9,904 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „chestnut“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chestnut |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „chestnut“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
chestnut is uncommon German at frequency #90,093 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ein Pferd mit der Fellfarbe „Fuchs“".
No generated misspelling entries exist for chestnut in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 chestnut, spelled C-H-E-S-T-N-U-T.
Definition
- 1ein Pferd mit der Fellfarbe „Fuchs“
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chestnut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
My old horse was a chestnut.
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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