skies
[skaɪz]
The verdict
“skies” is uncommon German (frequency #74,010 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,010
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs sky
Corpus desk
Index DE-skies · skies · German
skies · rank #74,010 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,010
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH skating
Nearest frequency peer: skating (-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 „skies“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Signifikanz
Signifikanz
25,995 corpus weight
- sinnliches
sinnliches
25,993 corpus weight
- skating
skating
25,992 corpus weight
- skies
skies
25,991 corpus weight
- Sklavenarbe…
Sklavenarbeit
25,990 corpus weight
- Slick
Slick
25,988 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „skies“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | skies |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [skaɪz] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,010 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „skies“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
skies is uncommon German at frequency #74,010 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [skaɪz]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs sky".
No generated misspelling entries exist for skies in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is skies, spelled S-K-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs sky
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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