sane
[seɪn]
The verdict
“sane” is uncommon German (frequency #61,892 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,892
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - geistig gesund, normal
Corpus desk
Index DE-sane · sane · German
sane · rank #61,892 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,892
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Salamanca
Nearest frequency peer: Salamanca (-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 „sane“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- 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
- schlechteres
schlechteres
38,104 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „sane“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sane |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [seɪn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #61,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „sane“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
sane is uncommon German at frequency #61,892 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [seɪn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "geistig gesund, normal".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sane in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is sane, spelled S-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1geistig gesund, normal
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oh, finally you got sane!
Antonyms
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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