dahlia
[da.lja]
The verdict
“dahlia” is uncommon German (frequency #77,830 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,830
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dahlie
Corpus desk
Index DE-dahlia · dahlia · German
dahlia · rank #77,830 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,830
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH dagger
Nearest frequency peer: dagger (-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 „dahlia“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- crusader
crusader
22,179 corpus weight
- dagger
dagger
22,172 corpus weight
- dahlia
dahlia
22,171 corpus weight
- dalla
dalla
22,170 corpus weight
- Damentoilet…
Damentoilette
22,169 corpus weight
- debate
debate
22,163 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „dahlia“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dahlia |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [da.lja] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,830 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „dahlia“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
dahlia is uncommon German at frequency #77,830 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [da.lja]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dahlie".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dahlia, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is dahlia, spelled D-A-H-L-I-A.
Definition
- 1Dahlie
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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