Sanaa
[ˈzaːnaʔaː]
The verdict
“Sanaa” is uncommon German (frequency #55,674 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,674
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hauptstadt von Jemen
Corpus desk
Index DE-sanaa · Sanaa · German
Sanaa · rank #55,674 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,674
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sammelklage
Nearest frequency peer: Sammelklage (-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 „Sanaa“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- rückläufige
rückläufige
44,330 corpus weight
- Salamander
Salamander
44,329 corpus weight
- Sammelklage
Sammelklage
44,328 corpus weight
- Sanaa
Sanaa
44,327 corpus weight
- sari
sari
44,326 corpus weight
- schadlos
schadlos
44,325 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Sanaa“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sanaa |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈzaːnaʔaː] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,674 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Sanaa“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Sanaa is uncommon German at frequency #55,674 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈzaːnaʔaː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hauptstadt von Jemen".
Sanaa doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Sanaa, spelled S-A-N-A-A.
Definition
- 1Hauptstadt von Jemen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Sanaa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sie wurde in Sanaa geboren.
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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