Skopje
[ˈskɔpjɛ]
The verdict
“Skopje” is uncommon German (frequency #61,936 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,936
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hauptstadt von Nordmazedonien
Corpus desk
Index DE-skopje · Skopje · German
Skopje · rank #61,936 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,936
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Skiverband
Nearest frequency peer: Skiverband (-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 „Skopje“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Siesta
Siesta
38,068 corpus weight
- Sitzgruppe
Sitzgruppe
38,067 corpus weight
- Skiverband
Skiverband
38,066 corpus weight
- Skopje
Skopje
38,065 corpus weight
- slams
slams
38,063 corpus weight
- Solidarität…
Solidaritätszuschlag
38,062 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Skopje“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Skopje |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈskɔpjɛ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Skopje“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Skopje is uncommon German at frequency #61,936 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈskɔpjɛ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hauptstadt von Nordmazedonien".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Skopje in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Skopje, spelled S-K-O-P-J-E.
Definition
- 1Hauptstadt von Nordmazedonien
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Skopje appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Meine letzten Sommerferien verbrachte ich in Skopje.
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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