Spira
[ˈspʲira]
The verdict
“Spira” is uncommon German (frequency #96,291 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,291
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stadt im deutschen Bundesland Rheinland-Pfalz; Speyer
Corpus desk
Index DE-spira · Spira · German
Spira · rank #96,291 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,291
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH spins
Nearest frequency peer: spins (-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 „Spira“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Spinnrad
Spinnrad
3,712 corpus weight
- spins
spins
3,711 corpus weight
- Spira
Spira
3,710 corpus weight
- Sportjourna…
Sportjournalisten
3,709 corpus weight
- Sportlehrer…
Sportlehrerin
3,708 corpus weight
- Sportwelt
Sportwelt
3,707 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Spira“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Spira |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈspʲira] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,291 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Spira“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Spira is uncommon German at frequency #96,291 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈspʲira]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Stadt im deutschen Bundesland Rheinland-Pfalz; Speyer".
No misspelling variants are generated for Spira in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. 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 headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Spira, spelled S-P-I-R-A.
Definition
- 1Stadt im deutschen Bundesland Rheinland-Pfalz; Speyer
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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