Serial
[ˈziːʁiəl]
The verdict
“Serial” is uncommon German (frequency #65,681 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,681
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Fernsehserie
Corpus desk
Index DE-serial · Serial · German
Serial · rank #65,681 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,681
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH seinetwegen
Nearest frequency peer: seinetwegen (-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 „Serial“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Segnungen
Segnungen
34,324 corpus weight
- Segway
Segway
34,323 corpus weight
- seinetwegen
seinetwegen
34,321 corpus weight
- Serial
Serial
34,320 corpus weight
- Seyfried
Seyfried
34,319 corpus weight
- Siebenbürger
Siebenbürger
34,317 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Serial“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Serial |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈziːʁiəl] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Serial“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Serial is uncommon German at frequency #65,681 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈziːʁiəl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Serial in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 Serial, spelled S-E-R-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1die Fernsehserie
- 2ein Roman, der als Fortsetzungsserie in Zeitungen abgedruckt wird
Synonyms
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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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