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
- Erdkugel
Erdkugel
8,465 corpus weight
- erforderlic…
erforderlicher
8,463 corpus weight
- erheiternd
erheiternd
8,461 corpus weight
- Erie
Erie
8,460 corpus weight
- ernüchternde
ernüchternde
8,457 corpus weight
- Eroberern
Eroberern
8,456 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Erie“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Erie“ im Deutschen
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
- 1Ort im US-Bundesstaat Pennsylvania
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Erie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Bei Sonnenaufgang erreichten sie Erie, Pennsylvania.“
„›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.
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