Ciconia ciconia
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The verdict
“Ciconia ciconia” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der wissenschaftliche Name des Weißstorchs
Corpus desk
Index DE-ciconia-ciconia · Ciconia ciconia · German
Ciconia ciconia · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ciconia ciconia |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Ciconia ciconia“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Ciconia ciconia is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "der wissenschaftliche Name des Weißstorchs".
Ciconia ciconia doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Ciconia ciconia, spelled C-I-C-O-N-I-A- -C-I-C-O-N-I-A.
Definition
- 1der wissenschaftliche Name des Weißstorchs
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ciconia ciconia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der deutsche Bestand von Ciconia ciconia hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten deutlich erholt.
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