Golanhöhen
[ɡoˈlaːnˌhøːən]
The verdict
“Golanhöhen” is uncommon German (frequency #89,013 among 54,401 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,013
- frequency rank, German
- 54,401
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - basaltisches, hügeliges Hochland im Nahen Osten zwischen dem See Genezereth und der syrischen Hauptstadt Damaskus, das in seiner Gänze international als Teil Syriens anerkannt ist, weite Teile des ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Golanhöhen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ɡoˈlaːnˌhøːən] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #89,013 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Golanhöhen” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Golanhöhen is uncommon German at frequency #89,013 among 54,401 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ɡoˈlaːnˌhøːən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "basaltisches, hügeliges Hochland im Nahen Osten zwischen dem See Genezereth und der syrischen Hauptstadt Damaskus, das in seiner Gänze international als Teil Syriens anerkannt ist, weite Teile des ...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Golanhöhen in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Golanhöhen, spelled G-O-L-A-N-H-Ö-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1basaltisches, hügeliges Hochland im Nahen Osten zwischen dem See Genezereth und der syrischen Hauptstadt Damaskus, das in seiner Gänze international als Teil Syriens anerkannt ist, weite Teile des Hochlandes jedoch seit dem Sechstagekrieg von 1967 de facto unter israelischer Kontrolle stehen
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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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- The one correct German spelling is G-O-L-A-N-H-Ö-H-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.