Kalahari
[kalaˈhaːʁi]
The verdict
“Kalahari” is uncommon German (frequency #79,359 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,359
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Savannenlandschaft im südlichen Afrika
Corpus desk
Index DE-kalahari · Kalahari · German
Kalahari · rank #79,359 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,359
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kahla
Nearest frequency peer: Kahla (-2 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 „Kalahari“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Kabels
Kabels
20,645 corpus weight
- Kahla
Kahla
20,644 corpus weight
- Kalahari
Kalahari
20,642 corpus weight
- Kaltfront
Kaltfront
20,640 corpus weight
- Kamtschatka
Kamtschatka
20,638 corpus weight
- Kapitalismu…
Kapitalismuskritik
20,637 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Kalahari“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kalahari |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [kalaˈhaːʁi] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,359 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Kalahari“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Kalahari is uncommon German at frequency #79,359 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [kalaˈhaːʁi]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Savannenlandschaft im südlichen Afrika".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Kalahari, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Kalahari, spelled K-A-L-A-H-A-R-I.
Definition
- 1Savannenlandschaft im südlichen Afrika
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Kalahari appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Okavango mündet nicht ins Meer, sondern versickert in der Kalahari.
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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