Edmonton
[ˈɛdməntən]
The verdict
“Edmonton” is uncommon German (frequency #68,155 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,155
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hauptstadt der kanadischen Provinz Alberta
Corpus desk
Index DE-edmonton · Edmonton · German
Edmonton · rank #68,155 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,155
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Ehrenämter
Nearest frequency peer: Ehrenämter (+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 „Edmonton“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Durststrecke
Durststrecke
31,850 corpus weight
- ebnete
ebnete
31,848 corpus weight
- Edmonton
Edmonton
31,846 corpus weight
- Ehrenämter
Ehrenämter
31,845 corpus weight
- ehrgeiziger
ehrgeiziger
31,844 corpus weight
- eifrigen
eifrigen
31,843 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Edmonton“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Edmonton |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈɛdməntən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Edmonton“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Edmonton is uncommon German at frequency #68,155 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈɛdməntən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Edmonton, 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 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 Edmonton, spelled E-D-M-O-N-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Hauptstadt der kanadischen Provinz Alberta
- 2Stadtteil von London
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Edmonton appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Anscheinend konnte man am Lea entlang von der Themse bis rauf nach Edmonton gehen.“
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Edmonton", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).