Staatsgrenze

/[ˈʃtaːt͡sˌɡʁɛnt͡sə]/ noun

The verdict

“Staatsgrenze” is an uncommon German word, ranked #51,707 in German word frequency and used as a noun.

#51,707
frequency rank, German
12
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: territoriale Grenze eines Staats

Key facts for Staatsgrenze
PropertyValue
HeadwordStaatsgrenze
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈʃtaːt͡sˌɡʁɛnt͡sə]
Letters12
Frequency rank#51,707
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Staatsgrenze” sits in German frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Staatsgrenze lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Staatsgrenze is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃtaːt͡sˌɡʁɛnt͡sə]. Corpus data places it at rank #51,707 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "territoriale Grenze eines Staats".

No misspelling variants are generated for Staatsgrenze in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Staatsgrenze, spelled S-T-A-A-T-S-G-R-E-N-Z-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    territoriale Grenze eines Staats

Antonyms

Frequency rank: #51,707 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Staatsgrenze"?
"Staatsgrenze" is spelled S-T-A-A-T-S-G-R-E-N-Z-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈʃtaːt͡sˌɡʁɛnt͡sə].
What does "Staatsgrenze" mean?
As a noun, "Staatsgrenze" means: territoriale Grenze eines Staats
How do you pronounce "Staatsgrenze"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Staatsgrenze" is [ˈʃtaːt͡sˌɡʁɛnt͡sə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Staatsgrenze" come from?
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Using “Staatsgrenze”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is S-T-A-A-T-S-G-R-E-N-Z-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [ˈʃtaːt͡sˌɡʁɛnt͡sə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.