Silvesterabend
[zɪlˈvɛstɐˌʔaːbn̩t]
The verdict
“Silvesterabend” is uncommon German (frequency #78,550 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,550
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der letzte Abend des Jahres am 31. Dezember
Corpus desk
Index DE-silvesterabend · Silvesterabend · German
Silvesterabend · rank #78,550 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,550
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Silbermond
Nearest frequency peer: Silbermond (-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 „Silvesterabend“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- siebe
siebe
21,453 corpus weight
- Silbermond
Silbermond
21,452 corpus weight
- Silvesterab…
Silvesterabend
21,451 corpus weight
- skrupelloser
skrupelloser
21,449 corpus weight
- Solon
Solon
21,447 corpus weight
- somewhere
somewhere
21,446 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Silvesterabend“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Silvesterabend |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [zɪlˈvɛstɐˌʔaːbn̩t] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #78,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Silvesterabend“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Silvesterabend is uncommon German at frequency #78,550 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [zɪlˈvɛstɐˌʔaːbn̩t]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "der letzte Abend des Jahres am 31. Dezember".
No misspelling variants are generated for Silvesterabend in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Silvesterabend, spelled S-I-L-V-E-S-T-E-R-A-B-E-N-D.
Definition
- 1der letzte Abend des Jahres am 31. Dezember
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Silvesterabend appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Am Silvesterabend gibt es jedes Jahr Fondue.
„Vielleicht ist sie am Silvesterabend einfach durchgedreht, weil sie zu elend und verängstigt war, um auf die Party zu gehen, zu der sie eingeladen war, und zu elend und verängstigt, um allein zu sein.“
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).