Senkrechtstarter
[ˈzɛŋkʁɛçtˌʃtaʁtɐ]
The verdict
“Senkrechtstarter” is uncommon German (frequency #99,080 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,080
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Luftfahrzeug, das senkrecht startet
Corpus desk
Index DE-senkrechtstarter · Senkrechtstarter · German
Senkrechtstarter · rank #99,080 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,080
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sendemast
Nearest frequency peer: Sendemast (-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 „Senkrechtstarter“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- schwärmten
schwärmten
929 corpus weight
- selbstverst…
selbstverständliches
924 corpus weight
- sempre
sempre
923 corpus weight
- Sendemast
Sendemast
922 corpus weight
- Senkrechtst…
Senkrechtstarter
921 corpus weight
- sezieren
sezieren
917 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Senkrechtstarter“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Senkrechtstarter |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzɛŋkʁɛçtˌʃtaʁtɐ] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Frequency rank | #99,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Senkrechtstarter“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Senkrechtstarter is uncommon German at frequency #99,080 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈzɛŋkʁɛçtˌʃtaʁtɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Senkrechtstarter, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Senkrechtstarter, spelled S-E-N-K-R-E-C-H-T-S-T-A-R-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Luftfahrzeug, das senkrecht startet
- 2Person, die mit etwas beginnt und sofort großen Erfolg hat
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Senkrechtstarter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Minister Strauß wie der Inspekteur Kammhuber hatten zu Beginn der 60er Jahre offenbar etwas voreilig geglaubt, dass sich ein Senkrechtsarter recht rasch entwickeln und bauen lasse.“
„Schon am zweiten Spieltag konnte Benjamin Henrichs von Bayer Leverkusen unter Beweis stellen, warum er das Potenzial zum Senkrechtstarter der Saison hat.“
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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