Staatsbahn
[ˈʃtaːt͡sˌbaːn]
The verdict
“Staatsbahn” is uncommon German (frequency #59,205 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,205
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Eisenbahn, die von einem Staat betrieben wird; staatlich ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-staatsbahn · Staatsbahn · German
Staatsbahn · rank #59,205 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,205
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Staatskosten
Nearest frequency peer: Staatskosten (+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 „Staatsbahn“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- spotten
spotten
40,800 corpus weight
- sprichwörtl…
sprichwörtlichen
40,799 corpus weight
- sprudelt
sprudelt
40,798 corpus weight
- Staatsbahn
Staatsbahn
40,796 corpus weight
- Staatskosten
Staatskosten
40,795 corpus weight
- Stadtrecht
Stadtrecht
40,793 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Staatsbahn“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Staatsbahn |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtaːt͡sˌbaːn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Staatsbahn“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Staatsbahn is uncommon German at frequency #59,205 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃtaːt͡sˌbaːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Eisenbahn, die von einem Staat betrieben wird; staatlich ist".
Zero misspellings are on record for Staatsbahn in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Staatsbahn, spelled S-T-A-A-T-S-B-A-H-N.
Definition
- 1Eisenbahn, die von einem Staat betrieben wird; staatlich ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Staatsbahn appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Deutsche Bahn ist keine Staatsbahn mehr, jedoch besitzt die Bundesrepublik Deutschland die mehrheitlichen Anteile.
„Zwar unterbrachen die preußischen Staatsbahnen am 6. November die meisten Fernverbindungen aus Norddeutschland, doch zu diesem Zeitpunkt waren bereits zu viele Revolutionäre unterwegs.“
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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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