sowa
[ˈsɔva]
The verdict
“sowa” is uncommon German (frequency #93,613 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,613
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Eule
Corpus desk
Index DE-sowa · sowa · German
sowa · rank #93,613 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,613
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sonderformen
Nearest frequency peer: Sonderformen (-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 „sowa“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- societies
societies
6,393 corpus weight
- solidarisch…
solidarischer
6,392 corpus weight
- Sonderformen
Sonderformen
6,389 corpus weight
- sowa
sowa
6,388 corpus weight
- spartanisch…
spartanischen
6,384 corpus weight
- Spastis
Spastis
6,383 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „sowa“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sowa |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsɔva] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #93,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „sowa“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
sowa is uncommon German at frequency #93,613 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈsɔva]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Eule".
No misspelling variants are generated for sowa in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 sowa, spelled S-O-W-A.
Definition
- 1Eule
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sowa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sowy polują przeważnie nocą.
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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