Spenge
[ˈʃpɛŋə]
The verdict
“Spenge” is uncommon German (frequency #97,724 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,724
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
Corpus desk
Index DE-spenge · Spenge · German
Spenge · rank #97,724 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,724
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Spediteure
Nearest frequency peer: Spediteure (-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 „Spenge“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Sonnenfleck…
Sonnenflecken
2,283 corpus weight
- Sozialistin
Sozialistin
2,282 corpus weight
- Spediteure
Spediteure
2,278 corpus weight
- Spenge
Spenge
2,277 corpus weight
- Spielführer
Spielführer
2,275 corpus weight
- Sportgericht
Sportgericht
2,272 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Spenge“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Spenge |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃpɛŋə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,724 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Spenge“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Spenge is uncommon German at frequency #97,724 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈʃpɛŋə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Spenge, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Spenge, spelled S-P-E-N-G-E.
Definition
- 1eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Spenge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Spenge liegt im Westen Deutschlands.
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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