Sperrgebiet
[ˈʃpɛʁɡəˌbiːt]
The verdict
“Sperrgebiet” is uncommon German (frequency #50,894 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,894
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bereich, der nicht von jeder Person begangen oder befahren werden darf
Corpus desk
Index DE-sperrgebiet · Sperrgebiet · German
Sperrgebiet · rank #50,894 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,894
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Spendengelder
Nearest frequency peer: Spendengelder (-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 „Sperrgebiet“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- sozialdemok…
sozialdemokratisch
49,111 corpus weight
- Sparpolitik
Sparpolitik
49,110 corpus weight
- Spendengeld…
Spendengelder
49,108 corpus weight
- Sperrgebiet
Sperrgebiet
49,107 corpus weight
- Spielbericht
Spielbericht
49,106 corpus weight
- spinnst
spinnst
49,105 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Sperrgebiet“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sperrgebiet |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃpɛʁɡəˌbiːt] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #50,894 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Sperrgebiet“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Sperrgebiet is uncommon German at frequency #50,894 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃpɛʁɡəˌbiːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bereich, der nicht von jeder Person begangen oder befahren werden darf".
Zero misspellings are on record for Sperrgebiet 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Sperrgebiet, spelled S-P-E-R-R-G-E-B-I-E-T.
Definition
- 1Bereich, der nicht von jeder Person begangen oder befahren werden darf
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sperrgebiet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Aber die deutsche Frau hat das Sperrgebiet nicht gesehen.“
„Schon in den sowjetischen Jahren war die Provinz militärisches Sperrgebiet gewesen und hatte eine herausgehobene Rolle in der Moskauer Sicherheitsstrategie.“
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).