Pontus
[ˈpɔntʊs]
The verdict
“Pontus” is uncommon German (frequency #66,592 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,592
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - antike Landschaft in Nordanatolien
Corpus desk
Index DE-pontus · Pontus · German
Pontus · rank #66,592 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,592
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH pond
Nearest frequency peer: pond (-2 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 „Pontus“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Poitiers
Poitiers
33,413 corpus weight
- pond
pond
33,411 corpus weight
- Pontus
Pontus
33,409 corpus weight
- Postbus
Postbus
33,407 corpus weight
- posttraumat…
posttraumatische
33,406 corpus weight
- Praha
Praha
33,405 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Pontus“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pontus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈpɔntʊs] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Pontus“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Pontus is uncommon German at frequency #66,592 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈpɔntʊs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "antike Landschaft in Nordanatolien".
Pontus has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Pontus, spelled P-O-N-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1antike Landschaft in Nordanatolien
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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