isles
[aɪlz]
The verdict
“isles” is uncommon German (frequency #68,367 among 1,488 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,367
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs isle
Corpus desk
Index DE-isles · isles · German
isles · rank #68,367 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,367
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH irreparabel
Nearest frequency peer: irreparabel (-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 „isles“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- intensiveren
intensiveren
31,638 corpus weight
- Internierung
Internierung
31,637 corpus weight
- irreparabel
irreparabel
31,635 corpus weight
- isles
isles
31,634 corpus weight
- Jahresbilanz
Jahresbilanz
31,633 corpus weight
- Jammerlappen
Jammerlappen
31,631 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „isles“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | isles |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aɪlz] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,367 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „isles“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
isles is uncommon German at frequency #68,367 among 1,488 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [aɪlz]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs isle".
No misspelling variants are generated for isles in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 isles, spelled I-S-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs isle
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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