Saline
[zaˈliːnə]
The verdict
“Saline” is uncommon German (frequency #56,495 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,495
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Betrieb, der durch gezielte Erhitzung, aus einer Sole, durch Verdunstung Salz gewinnt
Corpus desk
Index DE-saline · Saline · German
Saline · rank #56,495 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,495
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Saisons
Nearest frequency peer: Saisons (-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 „Saline“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Rundungen
Rundungen
43,509 corpus weight
- sab
sab
43,508 corpus weight
- Saisons
Saisons
43,507 corpus weight
- Saline
Saline
43,506 corpus weight
- Sammelstelle
Sammelstelle
43,505 corpus weight
- Schallwellen
Schallwellen
43,504 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Saline“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Saline |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [zaˈliːnə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,495 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Saline“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Saline is uncommon German at frequency #56,495 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [zaˈliːnə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Saline in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Saline, spelled S-A-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Betrieb, der durch gezielte Erhitzung, aus einer Sole, durch Verdunstung Salz gewinnt
- 2Betrieb, der durch natürliche Erhitzung, aus einer Sole, durch Verdunstung Salz gewinnt
- 3öffentliche Badeanstalt um in salzhaltigem Wasser zu baden
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Saline appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Dabei produziert die Saline, die sich seit 1881 im Besitz der Familie befindet, gerade einmal 3000 bis 4000 Tonnen im Jahr.“
Antonyms
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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