Erbil
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The verdict
“Erbil” is uncommon German (frequency #76,723 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,723
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stadt in Irak; Arbil
Corpus desk
Index DE-erbil · Erbil · German
Erbil · rank #76,723 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,723
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH erblickten
Nearest frequency peer: erblickten (+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 „Erbil“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Entwicklung…
Entwicklungspsychologie
23,282 corpus weight
- entzückenden
entzückenden
23,281 corpus weight
- Erbil
Erbil
23,278 corpus weight
- erblickten
erblickten
23,277 corpus weight
- ergangenen
ergangenen
23,276 corpus weight
- ergiebige
ergiebige
23,275 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Erbil“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Erbil |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Erbil“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Erbil is uncommon German at frequency #76,723 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Stadt in Irak; Arbil".
Erbil has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Erbil, spelled E-R-B-I-L.
Definition
- 1Stadt in Irak; Arbil
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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