Salerno

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The verdict

“Salerno” is uncommon German (frequency #63,721 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#63,721
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hafenstadt in Süditalien

Corpus desk

Index DE-salerno · Salerno · German

Salerno · rank #63,721 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #63,721
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH salvator

Nearest frequency peer: salvator (+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 „Salerno“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Salerno“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Salerno
PropertyValue
HeadwordSalerno
LanguageGerman
Part of speechProper noun
IPA[…]
Letters7
Frequency rank#63,721
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Salerno“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).Salernofällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „salvator“ (#63,722), „Rücksichtslosigkeit“ (#63,719), „sampling“ (#63,723). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „Salerno“ bei #63,721. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Salerno is uncommon German at frequency #63,721 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for Salerno in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Salerno, spelled S-A-L-E-R-N-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Hafenstadt in Süditalien
  2. 2
    italienische Provinz in der Region Kampanien mit [1] als Hauptstadt

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Salerno appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Bestimmungsort der Lieferung ist Gioia Tauro, doch sie landet versehentlich im Hafen von Salerno, wo sie beschlagnahmt wird.“

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Salerno"?
"Salerno" is spelled S-A-L-E-R-N-O. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "Salerno" mean?
As a proper noun, "Salerno" means: Hafenstadt in Süditalien
How do you pronounce "Salerno"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Salerno" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Salerno" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Salerno", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Rösrath#63,717Rotwild#63,710rendern#63,694Raubbau#63,682

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list