Dekkan
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The verdict
“Dekkan” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - südlicher Teil des Indischen Subkontinents
Corpus desk
Index DE-dekkan · Dekkan · German
Dekkan · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" 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 | Dekkan |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Dekkan“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Dekkan is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "südlicher Teil des Indischen Subkontinents".
Dekkan doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Dekkan, spelled D-E-K-K-A-N.
Definition
- 1südlicher Teil des Indischen Subkontinents
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dekkan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Dennoch deutete sich bereits eine geographische Verschiebung der Herrschaftsperspektive - weg von Zentralasien, hin nach Südasien - an. So unternahmen schon die Khaljiden erste Feldzüge auf den Dekkan.“
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.