sinfonia

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The verdict

“sinfonia” is uncommon German (frequency #88,288 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#88,288
frequency rank, German
107,600
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - die Symphonie

Key facts for sinfonia
PropertyValue
Headwordsinfonia
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters8
Frequency rank#88,288
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “sinfonia” sits in German frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). sinfonia lands here:

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

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sinfonia is uncommon German at frequency #88,288 among 107,600 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "die Symphonie".

No generated misspelling entries exist for sinfonia in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is sinfonia, spelled S-I-N-F-O-N-I-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    die Symphonie

This word in other languages

symphony(English)sinfonia(Español)symphonie(Français)

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 "sinfonia"?
"sinfonia" is spelled S-I-N-F-O-N-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "sinfonia" mean?
As a noun, "sinfonia" means: die Symphonie
How do you pronounce "sinfonia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sinfonia" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sinfonia" come from?
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Using “sinfonia”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is S-I-N-F-O-N-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as […] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Other uncommon German words near this 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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list