Collie
[ˈkɔli]
The verdict
“Collie” is uncommon German (frequency #65,085 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,085
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - schottischer Schäferhund
Corpus desk
Index DE-collie · Collie · German
Collie · rank #65,085 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,085
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Connery
Nearest frequency peer: Connery (+2 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 „Collie“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Camouflage
Camouflage
34,921 corpus weight
- Canberra
Canberra
34,920 corpus weight
- cena
cena
34,919 corpus weight
- Collie
Collie
34,916 corpus weight
- Connery
Connery
34,914 corpus weight
- conservative
conservative
34,912 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Collie“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Collie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɔli] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,085 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Collie“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Collie is uncommon German at frequency #65,085 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkɔli]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "schottischer Schäferhund".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Collie, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Collie, spelled C-O-L-L-I-E.
Definition
- 1schottischer Schäferhund
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Collie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lassie ist wohl der bekannteste Collie der Welt.
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).