Kandahar
[ˈkandahaːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Kandahar” is uncommon German (frequency #76,949 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,949
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit 460.000 Einwohnern drittgrößte Stadt Afghanistans, Hauptstadt der gleichnamigen Provinz
Corpus desk
Index DE-kandahar · Kandahar · German
Kandahar · rank #76,949 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,949
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH kanalisiert
Nearest frequency peer: kanalisiert (-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 „Kandahar“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- kami
kami
23,055 corpus weight
- Kaminfeuer
Kaminfeuer
23,054 corpus weight
- kanalisiert
kanalisiert
23,053 corpus weight
- Kandahar
Kandahar
23,052 corpus weight
- kappt
kappt
23,051 corpus weight
- Kardiologe
Kardiologe
23,050 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Kandahar“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kandahar |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈkandahaːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Kandahar“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Kandahar is uncommon German at frequency #76,949 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈkandahaːɐ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Kandahar doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Kandahar, spelled K-A-N-D-A-H-A-R.
Definition
- 1mit 460.000 Einwohnern drittgrößte Stadt Afghanistans, Hauptstadt der gleichnamigen Provinz
- 2Provinz in Afghanistan mit mehr als 1.000.000 Einwohnern
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kandahar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Dabei war es ihm sogar möglich, Persien Kandahar zu entreißen und damit die Grenze des Mogulreiches an den Helmand-Fluss zu verlegen.“
„Der Paschtune Ahmad Shah Durrani, der sich nach dem Tod Nadir Schahs in Kandahar zum Herrscher aufschwang, fiel zwischen 1747 und 1773 mehrfach in Indien ein, plünderte 1757 erneut Delhi und schlug 1761 ein vereintes Heer der Marathen.“
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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