Erie
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The verdict
“Erie” is uncommon German (frequency #91,541 among 57,060 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,541
- frequency rank, German
- 57,060
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ort im US-Bundesstaat Pennsylvania
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Erie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #91,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Erie” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Erie is uncommon German at frequency #91,541 among 57,060 “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
- 1Ort im US-Bundesstaat Pennsylvania
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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Using “Erie”
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- The one correct German spelling is E-R-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.