Sewastopol
[sevasˈtoːpɔl]
The verdict
“Sewastopol” is uncommon German (frequency #56,527 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,527
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - größte Stadt auf der Krim
Corpus desk
Index DE-sewastopol · Sewastopol · German
Sewastopol · rank #56,527 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,527
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 107,600
- PHOTO-FINISH shakes
Nearest frequency peer: shakes (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Sewastopol”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Seitenstrei…
Seitenstreifen
43,478 corpus weight
- Selbstverso…
Selbstversorger
43,477 corpus weight
- Seligkeit
Seligkeit
43,476 corpus weight
- Sewastopol
Sewastopol
43,474 corpus weight
- shakes
shakes
43,473 corpus weight
- Sicherheits…
Sicherheitshinweise
43,470 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Sewastopol” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sewastopol |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [sevasˈtoːpɔl] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #56,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Sewastopol” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Sewastopol is uncommon German at frequency #56,527 among 107,600 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [sevasˈtoːpɔl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "größte Stadt auf der Krim".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Sewastopol, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Sewastopol, spelled S-E-W-A-S-T-O-P-O-L.
Definition
- 1größte Stadt auf der Krim
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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Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Sewastopol", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.