spannendste

[ˈʃpanənt͡stə]

/[ˈʃpanənt͡stə]/ adj

The verdict

“spannendste” is uncommon German (frequency #54,092 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#54,092
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Superlativs des Adjektivs spannend

Corpus desk

Index DE-spannendste · spannendste · German

spannendste · rank #54,092 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #54,092
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH Soziologin

Nearest frequency peer: Soziologin (-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 „spannendste“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „spannendste“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for spannendste
PropertyValue
Headwordspannendste
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[ˈʃpanənt͡stə]
Letters11
Frequency rank#54,092
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „spannendste“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).spannendstefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Soziologin“ (#54,091), „sparrow“ (#54,093), „Sozialkompetenz“ (#54,090). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „spannendste“ bei #54,092. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

spannendste is uncommon German at frequency #54,092 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʃpanənt͡stə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 9 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for spannendste in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 spannendste, spelled S-P-A-N-N-E-N-D-S-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Superlativs des Adjektivs spannend
  2. 2
    Akkusativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Superlativs des Adjektivs spannend
  3. 3
    Nominativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Superlativs des Adjektivs spannend
  4. 4
    Akkusativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Superlativs des Adjektivs spannend
  5. 5
    Nominativ Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Superlativs des Adjektivs spannend
  6. 6
    Akkusativ Singular Femininum der schwachen Deklination des Superlativs des Adjektivs spannend
  7. 7
    Akkusativ Singular Neutrum der schwachen Deklination des Superlativs des Adjektivs spannend
  8. 8
    Nominativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Deklination des Superlativs des Adjektivs spannend
  9. 9
    Akkusativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Deklination des Superlativs des Adjektivs spannend

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "spannendste"?
"spannendste" is spelled S-P-A-N-N-E-N-D-S-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈʃpanənt͡stə].
What does "spannendste" mean?
As an adjective, "spannendste" means: Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Superlativs des Adjektivs spannend
How do you pronounce "spannendste"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "spannendste" is [ˈʃpanənt͡stə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "spannendste" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "spannendste", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list