Guam
[ɡu̯am]
The verdict
“Guam” is uncommon German (frequency #75,734 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,734
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - im Pazifik gelegene Insel, Territorium der USA
Corpus desk
Index DE-guam · Guam · German
Guam · rank #75,734 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,734
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Grundrechts
Nearest frequency peer: Grundrechts (-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 „Guam“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Grenzpolizei
Grenzpolizei
24,273 corpus weight
- Grundrechts
Grundrechts
24,268 corpus weight
- Guam
Guam
24,267 corpus weight
- Guano
Guano
24,266 corpus weight
- gutaussehen…
gutaussehenden
24,264 corpus weight
- Gärtners
Gärtners
24,262 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Guam“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Guam |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ɡu̯am] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #75,734 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Guam“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Guam is uncommon German at frequency #75,734 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ɡu̯am]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "im Pazifik gelegene Insel, Territorium der USA".
Zero misspellings are on record for Guam in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Guam, spelled G-U-A-M.
Definition
- 1im Pazifik gelegene Insel, Territorium der USA
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Guam appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Insel Guam ist Teil der Marianen.
This word in other languages
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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