sinfonia

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The verdict

“sinfonia” is uncommon German (frequency #88,288 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#88,288
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Symphonie

Corpus desk

Index DE-sinfonia · sinfonia · German

sinfonia · rank #88,288 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #88,288
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH sink

Nearest frequency peer: sink (+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 „sinfonia“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sinfonia
PropertyValue
Headwordsinfonia
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters8
Frequency rank#88,288
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „sinfonia“ im Deutschen

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

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

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „sink“ (#88,289), „Sievert“ (#88,286), „Sizilianer“ (#88,290). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „sinfonia“ bei #88,288. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sinfonia is uncommon German at frequency #88,288 among 8,027 “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

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.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list