Linz am Rhein
[ˈlɪnt͡s am ˌʁaɪ̯n]
The verdict
“Linz am Rhein” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Stadt am nördlichen Mittelrhein im Landkreis Neuwied im deutschen Bundesland Rheinland-Pfalz
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Linz am Rhein |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈlɪnt͡s am ˌʁaɪ̯n] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Linz am Rhein” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Linz am Rhein is 13 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlɪnt͡s am ˌʁaɪ̯n]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Stadt am nördlichen Mittelrhein im Landkreis Neuwied im deutschen Bundesland Rheinland-Pfalz".
No misspelling variants are generated for Linz am Rhein in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Linz am Rhein, spelled L-I-N-Z- -A-M- -R-H-E-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Stadt am nördlichen Mittelrhein im Landkreis Neuwied im deutschen Bundesland Rheinland-Pfalz
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct German spelling is L-I-N-Z- -A-M- -R-H-E-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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