Erie

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The verdict

“Erie” is uncommon German (frequency #91,541 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#91,541
frequency rank, German
4,632
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ort im US-Bundesstaat Pennsylvania

Corpus desk

Index DE-erie · Erie · German

Erie · rank #91,541 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #91,541
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,632
  • PHOTO-FINISH erheiternd

Nearest frequency peer: erheiternd (-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 „Erie“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Erie“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Erie
PropertyValue
HeadwordErie
LanguageGerman
Part of speechProper noun
IPA[…]
Letters4
Frequency rank#91,541
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Erie“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).Eriefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „erheiternd“ (#91,540), „erforderlicher“ (#91,538), „ernüchternde“ (#91,544). Unter 4,632 „E“-Lemmata liegt „Erie“ bei #91,541. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Erie is uncommon German at frequency #91,541 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ort im US-Bundesstaat Pennsylvania".

Zero misspellings are on record for Erie in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented 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 Erie, spelled E-R-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ort im US-Bundesstaat Pennsylvania

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Erie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Bei Sonnenaufgang erreichten sie Erie, Pennsylvania.“
  2. „›Also muss ich keine Korsagen nach Erie, Pennsylvania, liefern, wie ich es im Moment mit den Liebesbriefen mache?‹“

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Erie"?
"Erie" is spelled E-R-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "Erie" mean?
As a proper noun, "Erie" means: Ort im US-Bundesstaat Pennsylvania
How do you pronounce "Erie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Erie" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Erie" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Erie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list