Seestern
[ˈzeːˌʃtɛʁn]
The verdict
“Seestern” is uncommon German (frequency #71,831 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,831
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in allen Meeren vorkommender Stachelhäuter mit fünfstrahligem Körperbau
Corpus desk
Index DE-seestern · Seestern · German
Seestern · rank #71,831 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,831
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sehstörungen
Nearest frequency peer: Sehstörungen (+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 „Seestern“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Schuljahren
Schuljahren
28,174 corpus weight
- Schultüte
Schultüte
28,173 corpus weight
- Schäumen
Schäumen
28,172 corpus weight
- Seestern
Seestern
28,170 corpus weight
- Sehstörungen
Sehstörungen
28,169 corpus weight
- Selbstbehau…
Selbstbehauptung
28,166 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Seestern“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Seestern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzeːˌʃtɛʁn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,831 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Seestern“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Seestern is uncommon German at frequency #71,831 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈzeːˌʃtɛʁn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "in allen Meeren vorkommender Stachelhäuter mit fünfstrahligem Körperbau".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Seestern, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Seestern, spelled S-E-E-S-T-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1in allen Meeren vorkommender Stachelhäuter mit fünfstrahligem Körperbau
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Seestern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In manchen Aquarien kann man lebende Seesterne sehen.
„Am frühen Morgen des 21. November 1957 fanden spielende Kinder auf dem weißen Strand des Fischerdorfes Cascais vor Lissabon bunte Muscheln, Seesterne, halbtote Fische und einen toten Herrn.“
Synonyms
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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