staatenlos
[ˈʃtaːtn̩loːs]
The verdict
“staatenlos” is uncommon German (frequency #77,355 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,355
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - keine Staatsangehörigkeit habend, keinem Staat angehörend
Corpus desk
Index DE-staatenlos · staatenlos · German
staatenlos · rank #77,355 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,355
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Staatseigentum
Nearest frequency peer: Staatseigentum (+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 „staatenlos“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Sportartikel
Sportartikel
22,651 corpus weight
- Sprachkennt…
Sprachkenntnissen
22,648 corpus weight
- staatenlos
staatenlos
22,646 corpus weight
- Staatseigen…
Staatseigentum
22,645 corpus weight
- Staatsfonds
Staatsfonds
22,644 corpus weight
- Standbilder
Standbilder
22,641 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „staatenlos“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | staatenlos |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʃtaːtn̩loːs] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „staatenlos“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
staatenlos is uncommon German at frequency #77,355 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʃtaːtn̩loːs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "keine Staatsangehörigkeit habend, keinem Staat angehörend".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for staatenlos, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is staatenlos, spelled S-T-A-A-T-E-N-L-O-S.
Definition
- 1keine Staatsangehörigkeit habend, keinem Staat angehörend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how staatenlos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nach dem Krieg waren sie staatenlos.
„Wie ist Europa dazu gekommen, sich an etwas zu versuchen, das es zumindest in diesem Ausmaß in der Geschichte noch nie gegeben hat, nämlich an einer staatenlosen Währung?“
This word in other languages
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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