Pasadena

[pæsəˈdiːnə]

/[pæsəˈdiːnə]/ name

The verdict

“Pasadena” is uncommon German (frequency #63,632 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#63,632
frequency rank, German
3,409
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stadt in Kalifornien, USA

Corpus desk

Index DE-pasadena · Pasadena · German

Pasadena · rank #63,632 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #63,632
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,409
  • PHOTO-FINISH Parsberg

Nearest frequency peer: Parsberg (-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 „Pasadena“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Pasadena“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Pasadena
PropertyValue
HeadwordPasadena
LanguageGerman
Part of speechProper noun
IPA[pæsəˈdiːnə]
Letters8
Frequency rank#63,632
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Pasadena“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.Pasadenafällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Parsberg“ (#63,631), „Patagonien“ (#63,633), „Pauke“ (#63,634). Unter 3,409 „P“-Lemmata liegt „Pasadena“ bei #63,632. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Pasadena is uncommon German at frequency #63,632 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [pæsəˈdiːnə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for Pasadena in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Pasadena, spelled P-A-S-A-D-E-N-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Stadt in Kalifornien, USA
  2. 2
    Stadt in Texas, USA

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Pasadena appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Serviert wurde im akribisch restaurierten Speisezimmer seines Craftsman-Bungalows in Pasadena.“

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Pasadena"?
"Pasadena" is spelled P-A-S-A-D-E-N-A. The IPA pronunciation is [pæsəˈdiːnə].
What does "Pasadena" mean?
As a proper noun, "Pasadena" means: Stadt in Kalifornien, USA
How do you pronounce "Pasadena"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Pasadena" is [pæsəˈdiːnə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Pasadena" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Pasadena", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list