Slum
[slam]
The verdict
“Slum” is uncommon German (frequency #62,861 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,861
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - verwahrloster Stadtbezirk (vor allem in einer Großstadt), der von armen Menschen bewohnt wird und durch heruntergekommene Bausubstanz und schlecht ausgestattete Infrastruktur gekennzeichnet ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-slum · Slum · German
Slum · rank #62,861 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,861
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Skinheads
Nearest frequency peer: Skinheads (-2 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 „Slum“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- skeptischen
skeptischen
37,144 corpus weight
- skeptischer
skeptischer
37,143 corpus weight
- Skinheads
Skinheads
37,142 corpus weight
- Slum
Slum
37,140 corpus weight
- sneak
sneak
37,138 corpus weight
- Softdrinks
Softdrinks
37,137 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Slum“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Slum |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [slam] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #62,861 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Slum“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Slum is uncommon German at frequency #62,861 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [slam]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "verwahrloster Stadtbezirk (vor allem in einer Großstadt), der von armen Menschen bewohnt wird und durch heruntergekommene Bausubstanz und schlecht ausgestattete Infrastruktur gekennzeichnet ist".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Slum in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Slum, spelled S-L-U-M.
Definition
- 1verwahrloster Stadtbezirk (vor allem in einer Großstadt), der von armen Menschen bewohnt wird und durch heruntergekommene Bausubstanz und schlecht ausgestattete Infrastruktur gekennzeichnet ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Slum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Wasserversorgung in den indischen Slums ist katastrophal.
„Johanna Sarre, die fließend Kisuaheli spricht, hat zwei Monate im Slum gewohnt und Feldforschung direkt vor Ort betrieben.“
Synonyms
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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