siebeneinhalb

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The verdict

“siebeneinhalb” is uncommon German (frequency #85,849 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a numeral. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#85,849
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sieben Ganze und ein Halbes

Corpus desk

Index DE-siebeneinhalb · siebeneinhalb · German

siebeneinhalb · rank #85,849 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #85,849
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH sittenwidrig

Nearest frequency peer: sittenwidrig (+2 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 „siebeneinhalb“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for siebeneinhalb
PropertyValue
Headwordsiebeneinhalb
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNumeral
IPA[…]
Letters13
Frequency rank#85,849
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „siebeneinhalb“ im Deutschen

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

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „sittenwidrig“ (#85,851), „Shoppingcenter“ (#85,846), „sextus“ (#85,844). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „siebeneinhalb“ bei #85,849. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

siebeneinhalb is uncommon German at frequency #85,849 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anumeral, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sieben Ganze und ein Halbes".

siebeneinhalb doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.

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 siebeneinhalb, spelled S-I-E-B-E-N-E-I-N-H-A-L-B.

Definition

  1. 1
    sieben Ganze und ein Halbes

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how siebeneinhalb appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Einen 56-Bit-Schlüssel könnte ein moderner Rechner hingegen in siebeneinhalb Jahren knacken.“

Synonyms

siebenundeinhalb

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 "siebeneinhalb"?
"siebeneinhalb" is spelled S-I-E-B-E-N-E-I-N-H-A-L-B. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "siebeneinhalb" mean?
As a numeral, "siebeneinhalb" means: sieben Ganze und ein Halbes
How do you pronounce "siebeneinhalb"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "siebeneinhalb" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "siebeneinhalb" come from?
"siebeneinhalb" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Sklavenhalter#85,855Sonnenschirme#85,861Schwarzwaldes#85,824Schwanzflosse#85,822

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list