sail
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The verdict
“sail” is uncommon German (frequency #58,245 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,245
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - großes Stück Tuch an einem Schiffsmast, mit dem der Wind zur Fortbewegung genutzt wird, oder etwas Vergleichbares: Segel
Corpus desk
Index DE-sail · sail · German
sail · rank #58,245 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,245
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Salzgehalt
Nearest frequency peer: Salzgehalt (+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 „sail“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Sacha
Sacha
41,759 corpus weight
- sachgerecht
sachgerecht
41,758 corpus weight
- sail
sail
41,756 corpus weight
- Salzgehalt
Salzgehalt
41,755 corpus weight
- Samstagen
Samstagen
41,754 corpus weight
- Sandberg
Sandberg
41,753 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „sail“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sail |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #58,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „sail“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
sail is uncommon German at frequency #58,245 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for sail in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is sail, spelled S-A-I-L.
Definition
- 1großes Stück Tuch an einem Schiffsmast, mit dem der Wind zur Fortbewegung genutzt wird, oder etwas Vergleichbares: Segel
- 2Reise auf einem Segelschiff: Segelfahrt
- 3mit Segeln ausgestattetes Schiff: Segelschiff
- 4Teil einer Windmühle: Flügel; Tuch, mit dem dieser Flügel bespannt ist
- 5oberer Teil eines U-Bootes: Turm
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sail appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The pirates set sail for Zanzibar.
“A favourable wind swelled the sails, and the ship glided lightly over the blue waters.”
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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