Sabah
[ˈsabah]
The verdict
“Sabah” is uncommon German (frequency #77,262 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,262
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - malaysischer Bundesstaat
Corpus desk
Index DE-sabah · Sabah · German
Sabah · rank #77,262 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,262
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH rühmte
Nearest frequency peer: rühmte (-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 „Sabah“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- rundliche
rundliche
22,742 corpus weight
- rühmte
rühmte
22,740 corpus weight
- Sabah
Sabah
22,739 corpus weight
- Salinen
Salinen
22,738 corpus weight
- Sammlers
Sammlers
22,737 corpus weight
- Samuels
Samuels
22,736 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Sabah“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sabah |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈsabah] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,262 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Sabah“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Sabah is uncommon German at frequency #77,262 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈsabah]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "malaysischer Bundesstaat".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Sabah, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Sabah, spelled S-A-B-A-H.
Definition
- 1malaysischer Bundesstaat
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Sabah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Und auch Malaysias östlichste Provinz Sabah gilt immer mehr als Rückzugsraum.“
This word in other languages
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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