Sommerlager
[ˈzɔmɐˌlaːɡɐ]
The verdict
“Sommerlager” is uncommon German (frequency #88,301 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,301
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zeitlich begrenzte Zusammenkunft Gleichgesinnter im Sommer in schlichter Unterkunft
Corpus desk
Index DE-sommerlager · Sommerlager · German
Sommerlager · rank #88,301 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,301
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sonderparteit…
Nearest frequency peer: Sonderparteitag (+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 „Sommerlager“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Sommerlager
Sommerlager
11,700 corpus weight
- Sonderparte…
Sonderparteitag
11,699 corpus weight
- Sondierungs…
Sondierungsgespräche
11,698 corpus weight
- Sontra
Sontra
11,697 corpus weight
- Soundkarte
Soundkarte
11,696 corpus weight
- sourcing
sourcing
11,695 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Sommerlager“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sommerlager |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzɔmɐˌlaːɡɐ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #88,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Sommerlager“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Sommerlager is uncommon German at frequency #88,301 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈzɔmɐˌlaːɡɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "zeitlich begrenzte Zusammenkunft Gleichgesinnter im Sommer in schlichter Unterkunft".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Sommerlager, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Sommerlager, spelled S-O-M-M-E-R-L-A-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1zeitlich begrenzte Zusammenkunft Gleichgesinnter im Sommer in schlichter Unterkunft
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Sommerlager appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Maxines älterer Bruder Paul war ein Basketballstar an der University of Michigan und ihre jüngere Schwester Irene ein selbstbewusstes Mädchen, das an koscheren Sommerlagern teilnahm und später nach Israel auswanderte.“
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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