Sonnenferne
[ˈzɔnənˌfɛʁnə]
The verdict
“Sonnenferne” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der von der Sonne weitest entfernte Punkt einer Planeten- oder Kometenbahn
Corpus desk
Index DE-sonnenferne · Sonnenferne · German
Sonnenferne · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sonnenferne |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzɔnənˌfɛʁnə] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Sonnenferne“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Sonnenferne is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈzɔnənˌfɛʁnə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "der von der Sonne weitest entfernte Punkt einer Planeten- oder Kometenbahn".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Sonnenferne, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Sonnenferne, spelled S-O-N-N-E-N-F-E-R-N-E.
Definition
- 1der von der Sonne weitest entfernte Punkt einer Planeten- oder Kometenbahn
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sonnenferne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„‚In Sonnenferne läuft sie langsamer um die Sonne, in Sonnennähe schneller‘, erklärt Dietmar Stachowski vom Zeiss-Großplanetarium in Prenzlauer Berg.“
„Dass ausgerechnet für die nächsten paar tausend Jahre auf der Nordhalbkugel Sommer ist, wenn die Erde in Sonnenferne steht, ist reiner Zufall.“
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.