Silvaner
[zɪlˈvaːnɐ]
The verdict
“Silvaner” is uncommon German (frequency #97,703 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,703
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine weiße Rebsorte südosteuropäischen Ursprungs (Donauraum)
Corpus desk
Index DE-silvaner · Silvaner · German
Silvaner · rank #97,703 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,703
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sitzreihe
Nearest frequency peer: Sitzreihe (+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 „Silvaner“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Showmaster
Showmaster
2,302 corpus weight
- sickerte
sickerte
2,300 corpus weight
- Silvaner
Silvaner
2,298 corpus weight
- Sitzreihe
Sitzreihe
2,297 corpus weight
- sixties
sixties
2,295 corpus weight
- Skeletten
Skeletten
2,294 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Silvaner“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Silvaner |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [zɪlˈvaːnɐ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,703 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Silvaner“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Silvaner is uncommon German at frequency #97,703 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [zɪlˈvaːnɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Silvaner, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Silvaner, spelled S-I-L-V-A-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1eine weiße Rebsorte südosteuropäischen Ursprungs (Donauraum)
- 2ein Wein, der aus Reben der Sorte Silvaner hergestellt ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Silvaner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„[Der Silvaner] stammt wahrscheinlich von der kaukasischen Wildrebe (Vitis Vinifera ssp Caucasica V) ab. […] Der Name kommt von Transsilvanien beziehungsweise vom Silvanus, dem römischen Gott des Waldes.“
„Der Charakter des Silvaners wird sehr vom Standort und der Bodenbeschaffenheit geprägt. Auf Lehmböden werden die Weine oft neutral, dagegen entstehen auf Verwitterungsböden, wie z. B. in Franken oder um den Kaiserstuhl, feine, elegante Weine.“
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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