Silhouetten
[ziˈlʊ̯ɛtn̩]
The verdict
“Silhouetten” is uncommon German (frequency #62,854 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,854
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Silhouette
Corpus desk
Index DE-silhouetten · Silhouetten · German
Silhouetten · rank #62,854 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,854
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 107,600
- PHOTO-FINISH sickert
Nearest frequency peer: sickert (-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 “Silhouetten”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Sicherheits…
Sicherheitsgefühl
37,150 corpus weight
- sickert
sickert
37,148 corpus weight
- Silhouetten
Silhouetten
37,147 corpus weight
- sizilianisc…
sizilianischen
37,145 corpus weight
- skeptischen
skeptischen
37,144 corpus weight
- skeptischer
skeptischer
37,143 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Silhouetten” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Silhouetten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ziˈlʊ̯ɛtn̩] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #62,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Silhouetten” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Silhouetten is uncommon German at frequency #62,854 among 107,600 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ziˈlʊ̯ɛtn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Silhouetten, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Silhouetten, spelled S-I-L-H-O-U-E-T-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Silhouette
- 2Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Silhouette
- 3Dativ Plural des Substantivs Silhouette
- 4Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Silhouette
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Silhouetten", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 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.