Scirocco
[ʃiˈʁɔko]
The verdict
“Scirocco” is uncommon German (frequency #80,906 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,906
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - heißer Wind aus der Sahara, der über das Mittelmeer nach Südeuropa weht
Corpus desk
Index DE-scirocco · Scirocco · German
Scirocco · rank #80,906 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,906
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH scientists
Nearest frequency peer: scientists (-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 „Scirocco“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Schwarzbach
Schwarzbach
19,098 corpus weight
- Schwerhörig…
Schwerhörigkeit
19,097 corpus weight
- scientists
scientists
19,096 corpus weight
- Scirocco
Scirocco
19,095 corpus weight
- Sedierung
Sedierung
19,094 corpus weight
- Seeadler
Seeadler
19,093 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Scirocco“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Scirocco |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃiˈʁɔko] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Scirocco“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Scirocco is uncommon German at frequency #80,906 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ʃiˈʁɔko]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "heißer Wind aus der Sahara, der über das Mittelmeer nach Südeuropa weht".
Scirocco has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Scirocco, spelled S-C-I-R-O-C-C-O.
Definition
- 1heißer Wind aus der Sahara, der über das Mittelmeer nach Südeuropa weht
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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