sella

Name: sella, German Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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/[…]/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“sella” is uncommon German (frequency #89,551 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#89,551
frequency rank, German: 8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Augenbraue

Corpus desk

Index DE-sella · sella · German

sella · rank #89,551 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-RARE #89,551
LEN-MID 5 letters
VOW-2 2 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-0 0 variants
BOOK-DENSE 8,027
PHOTO-FINISH Selbstauskunft

Nearest frequency peer: Selbstauskunft (-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.

Seiende

10,453
Seitenzahlen

10,452
Selbstausku…

10,451
sella

10,450
seltenere

10,449
semitischen

10,448

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „sella“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Key facts for sella
Property	Value
Headword	sella
Language	German
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	[…]
Letters	5
Frequency rank	#89,551
Misspellings tracked	0
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „sella“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.sellafällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#89,551

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Selbstauskunft“ (#89,550), „seltenere“ (#89,552), „Seitenzahlen“ (#89,549). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „sella“ bei #89,551. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sella is uncommon German at frequency #89,551 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "die Augenbraue".

sella has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is sella, spelled S-E-L-L-A.

Definition

1
die Augenbraue

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sella"?

"sella" is spelled S-E-L-L-A. The IPA pronunciation is […].

What does "sella" mean?

As a noun, "sella" means: die Augenbraue

How do you pronounce "sella"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sella" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sella", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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