Kano
[ˈkaːno]
The verdict
“Kano” is uncommon German (frequency #67,375 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,375
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Großstadt in Nordnigeria
Corpus desk
Index DE-kano · Kano · German
Kano · rank #67,375 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,375
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH kanalisieren
Nearest frequency peer: kanalisieren (-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 „Kano“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Kaiserreich…
Kaiserreiches
32,630 corpus weight
- Kanadierin
Kanadierin
32,628 corpus weight
- kanalisieren
kanalisieren
32,627 corpus weight
- Kano
Kano
32,626 corpus weight
- kantige
kantige
32,625 corpus weight
- kapitalisti…
kapitalistisch
32,624 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Kano“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kano |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaːno] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Kano“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Kano is uncommon German at frequency #67,375 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈkaːno]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Kano in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 Kano, spelled K-A-N-O.
Definition
- 1Großstadt in Nordnigeria
- 2nigerianischer Bundesstaat mit [1] als Hauptstadt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kano appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Er hatte es auf den Gesichtern gesehen, die in Lagos und Abuja und Kano und Ibadan aus den Bussen gestiegen waren: ein benommener bloß-den-Tag-überstehen-Blick.“
„Es gibt die Möglichkeit, dass er mit dem Auto über Kano nach Maradi fährt, wo er bei einem meiner ehemaligen Schüler untertauchen kann.“
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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