sak
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The verdict
“sak” is uncommon German (frequency #66,643 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,643
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ding, Gegenstand, Objekt
Corpus desk
Index DE-sak · sak · German
sak · rank #66,643 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,643
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Saisonrennen
Nearest frequency peer: Saisonrennen (-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 „sak“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- russlanddeu…
russlanddeutschen
33,361 corpus weight
- sachkundigen
sachkundigen
33,360 corpus weight
- Saisonrennen
Saisonrennen
33,359 corpus weight
- sak
sak
33,358 corpus weight
- Sarazenen
Sarazenen
33,357 corpus weight
- saugte
saugte
33,356 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „sak“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sak |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #66,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „sak“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
sak is uncommon German at frequency #66,643 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sak, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is sak, spelled S-A-K.
Definition
- 1Ding, Gegenstand, Objekt
- 2Angelegenheit, Vorfall, Umstand
- 3(rechtliches) Anliegen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sak appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sakerna ligger på baksätet.
En sak till, jag vill prata om.
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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