Skandinavier
[skandiˈnaːvi̯ɐ]
The verdict
“Skandinavier” is uncommon German (frequency #59,185 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,185
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein Einwohner, Bewohner von Skandinavien, eine in Skandinavien geborene Person
Corpus desk
Index DE-skandinavier · Skandinavier · German
Skandinavier · rank #59,185 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,185
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sive
Nearest frequency peer: sive (-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 „Skandinavier“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Simbach
Simbach
40,818 corpus weight
- sive
sive
40,817 corpus weight
- Skandinavier
Skandinavier
40,816 corpus weight
- solis
solis
40,815 corpus weight
- Sommerwetter
Sommerwetter
40,814 corpus weight
- Sonnenunter…
Sonnenuntergänge
40,813 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Skandinavier“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Skandinavier |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [skandiˈnaːvi̯ɐ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #59,185 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Skandinavier“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Skandinavier is uncommon German at frequency #59,185 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [skandiˈnaːvi̯ɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ein Einwohner, Bewohner von Skandinavien, eine in Skandinavien geborene Person".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Skandinavier, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Skandinavier, spelled S-K-A-N-D-I-N-A-V-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1ein Einwohner, Bewohner von Skandinavien, eine in Skandinavien geborene Person
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Skandinavier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Früher, als Deutsche, Skandinavier und Griechen kamen und alles gut ging, jammerte Tassos ausgiebig; heute, da er Grund zum Jammern hätte, ist er lächelnder Fatalist. “
„Die Skandinavier bauen Gerste und Hafer an, doch sie fischen auch und gehen auf die Jagd - im Norden zählen etwa Elche und Rentiere zu ihrer Beute.“
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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).