Salamanca
[salaˈmaŋka]
The verdict
“Salamanca” is uncommon German (frequency #61,890 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,890
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Großstadt in Spanien
Corpus desk
Index DE-salamanca · Salamanca · German
Salamanca · rank #61,890 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,890
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sane
Nearest frequency peer: sane (+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 „Salamanca“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- rooms
rooms
38,117 corpus weight
- Rückkopplung
Rückkopplung
38,114 corpus weight
- Salamanca
Salamanca
38,111 corpus weight
- sane
sane
38,109 corpus weight
- Saurier
Saurier
38,107 corpus weight
- Schaltern
Schaltern
38,106 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Salamanca“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Salamanca |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [salaˈmaŋka] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Salamanca“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Salamanca is uncommon German at frequency #61,890 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [salaˈmaŋka]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Großstadt in Spanien".
Salamanca has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 Salamanca, spelled S-A-L-A-M-A-N-C-A.
Definition
- 1Großstadt in Spanien
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Salamanca appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Später hatte er sich an der Universität von Salamanca dem Studium des bürgerlichen und kanonischen Rechts gewidmet.“
„Der Dominikanermönch Vitoria lehrte an der Universität von Salamanca und verfasste unter anderem die zwei Traktate De Indis und De Iure belli Hispanorum in barbaros (beide 1532).“
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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