Salpeter
[zalˈpeːtɐ]
The verdict
“Salpeter” is uncommon German (frequency #84,501 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,501
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bezeichnung für verschiedene Salze der Salpetersäure
Corpus desk
Index DE-salpeter · Salpeter · German
Salpeter · rank #84,501 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,501
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Salinas
Nearest frequency peer: Salinas (-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 „Salpeter“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Rückrufakti…
Rückrufaktion
15,503 corpus weight
- Salinas
Salinas
15,501 corpus weight
- Salpeter
Salpeter
15,500 corpus weight
- sandale
sandale
15,499 corpus weight
- Sandsäcke
Sandsäcke
15,498 corpus weight
- Saragossa
Saragossa
15,497 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Salpeter“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Salpeter |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [zalˈpeːtɐ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Salpeter“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Salpeter is uncommon German at frequency #84,501 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [zalˈpeːtɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bezeichnung für verschiedene Salze der Salpetersäure".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Salpeter, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Salpeter, spelled S-A-L-P-E-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Bezeichnung für verschiedene Salze der Salpetersäure
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Salpeter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Salpeter spielt als Dünger in der Landwirtschaft eine Rolle.
„Zur Herstellung von Munition, aber auch von Düngemitteln für die Landwirtschaft bilden Stickstoffverbindungen (Nitrate), darunter insbesondere Salpeter (NaNO₃) und Salpetersäure (HNO₃), einen unentbehrlichen Grundbestandteil.“
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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