kobra
[ˈkɔbra]
The verdict
“kobra” is uncommon German (frequency #56,274 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,274
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Schlangenstein
Corpus desk
Index DE-kobra · kobra · German
kobra · rank #56,274 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,274
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH koala
Nearest frequency peer: koala (-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 „kobra“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- knallharten
knallharten
43,731 corpus weight
- Knesset
Knesset
43,730 corpus weight
- knifflig
knifflig
43,729 corpus weight
- koala
koala
43,728 corpus weight
- kobra
kobra
43,727 corpus weight
- kognitiv
kognitiv
43,724 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „kobra“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kobra |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɔbra] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,274 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „kobra“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
kobra is uncommon German at frequency #56,274 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkɔbra]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
kobra doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is kobra, spelled K-O-B-R-A.
Definition
- 1Schlangenstein
- 2Vertreter aus der Familie der Giftnattern (Elapidae), meist aus der Gattung Naja; Kobra
- 3Brillenschlange (Naja naja)
- 4Fernsehkrimi
- 5Person, die eine Brille trägt; Brillenschlange
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kobra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Naraz — najniespodziewaniej — poczułem ostre zęby buldoga, który — zdradziecko a milczkiem ugryzł mnie w łydkę tak, że poczułem dotkliwy ból. […] Pierwsza moja myśl była, że to pies wściekły, i że zginę od straszliwej, nieludzkiej choroby. Nigdzie dziś — chyba u znachorów na głębokiej wsi — nie dostanie kobry!“
„Ucieszyła się zobaczywszy go, poczem pili razem jakieś dziwne trunki: hangdogi i buiterzangi (czy coś podobnego), które przyprawiał oryginalny malaj, bawiąc się w przerwach wspaniałą kobrą, owiniętą wokół jego szyi.“
Synonyms
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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