Chia
[ˈt͡ʃiːa]
The verdict
“Chia” is uncommon German (frequency #50,371 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,371
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zu den Salbeigewächsen gehörende Pflanze aus Nord- und Zentralamerika
Corpus desk
Index DE-chia · Chia · German
Chia · rank #50,371 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,371
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH chemisches
Nearest frequency peer: chemisches (-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 „Chia“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Cashflow
Cashflow
49,634 corpus weight
- charakteris…
charakterisierte
49,632 corpus weight
- chemisches
chemisches
49,631 corpus weight
- Chia
Chia
49,630 corpus weight
- chiefs
chiefs
49,629 corpus weight
- CIO
CIO
49,628 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Chia“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chia |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡ʃiːa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Chia“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Chia is uncommon German at frequency #50,371 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈt͡ʃiːa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "zu den Salbeigewächsen gehörende Pflanze aus Nord- und Zentralamerika".
No misspelling variants are generated for Chia in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Chia, spelled C-H-I-A.
Definition
- 1zu den Salbeigewächsen gehörende Pflanze aus Nord- und Zentralamerika
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Chia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Morgens mache ich mir Chia an mein Müsli.
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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