sparrow

[spærəʊ]

/[spærəʊ]/ noun

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The verdict

“sparrow” is uncommon German (frequency #54,093 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#54,093
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Spatz, der Sperling

Corpus desk

Index DE-sparrow · sparrow · German

sparrow · rank #54,093 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #54,093
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH spannendste

Nearest frequency peer: spannendste (-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 „sparrow“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sparrow
PropertyValue
Headwordsparrow
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[spærəʊ]
Letters7
Frequency rank#54,093
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „sparrow“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).sparrowfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „spannendste“ (#54,092), „spekulative“ (#54,094), „Soziologin“ (#54,091). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „sparrow“ bei #54,093. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sparrow is uncommon German at frequency #54,093 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [spærəʊ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "der Spatz, der Sperling".

sparrow doesn't appear in our generated misspelling 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, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is sparrow, spelled S-P-A-R-R-O-W.

Definition

  1. 1
    der Spatz, der Sperling

This word in other languages

gorrión(Español)

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 "sparrow"?
"sparrow" is spelled S-P-A-R-R-O-W. The IPA pronunciation is [spærəʊ].
What does "sparrow" mean?
As a noun, "sparrow" means: der Spatz, der Sperling
How do you pronounce "sparrow"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sparrow" is [spærəʊ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sparrow" come from?
"sparrow" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

slipper#54,087Sprudel#54,100spuckte#54,101Simplex#54,084

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list