salam
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The verdict
“salam” is uncommon German (frequency #52,387 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,387
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dativ Singular des Substantivs sals „Frost“
Corpus desk
Index DE-salam · salam · German
salam · rank #52,387 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,387
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sachverhalten
Nearest frequency peer: Sachverhalten (-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 „salam“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Rüden
Rüden
47,617 corpus weight
- rügt
rügt
47,616 corpus weight
- Sachverhalt…
Sachverhalten
47,615 corpus weight
- salam
salam
47,614 corpus weight
- Salm
Salm
47,613 corpus weight
- Salmonellen
Salmonellen
47,612 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „salam“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salam |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „salam“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
salam is uncommon German at frequency #52,387 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dativ Singular des Substantivs sals „Frost“".
No generated misspelling entries exist for salam in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is salam, spelled S-A-L-A-M.
Definition
- 1Dativ Singular des Substantivs sals „Frost“
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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