Dettelbach
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The verdict
“Dettelbach” is uncommon German (frequency #63,225 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,225
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Stadt in Bayern, Deutschland
Corpus desk
Index DE-dettelbach · Dettelbach · German
Dettelbach · rank #63,225 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,225
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH destruktiven
Nearest frequency peer: destruktiven (-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 „Dettelbach“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- DBA
DBA
36,780 corpus weight
- Denkmuster
Denkmuster
36,778 corpus weight
- destruktiven
destruktiven
36,777 corpus weight
- Dettelbach
Dettelbach
36,776 corpus weight
- Diedrich
Diedrich
36,774 corpus weight
- dier
dier
36,772 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Dettelbach“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dettelbach |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #63,225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Dettelbach“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Dettelbach is uncommon German at frequency #63,225 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Stadt in Bayern, Deutschland".
Dettelbach doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Dettelbach, spelled D-E-T-T-E-L-B-A-C-H.
Definition
- 1eine Stadt in Bayern, Deutschland
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dettelbach appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dettelbach liegt im Südosten von Deutschland.
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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