Pasadena
[pæsəˈdiːnə]
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
- Paragon
Paragon
36,373 corpus weight
- parkende
parkende
36,372 corpus weight
- Parsberg
Parsberg
36,370 corpus weight
- Pasadena
Pasadena
36,369 corpus weight
- Patagonien
Patagonien
36,368 corpus weight
- Pauke
Pauke
36,367 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Pasadena“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pasadena |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [pæsəˈdiːnə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Pasadena“ im Deutschen
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
- 1Stadt in Kalifornien, USA
- 2Stadt in Texas, USA
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Pasadena appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„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.
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