stad
[ʃtaːt]
The verdict
“stad” is uncommon German (frequency #63,798 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,798
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bayrisch / österreichisch: still, ruhig
Corpus desk
Index DE-stad · stad · German
stad · rank #63,798 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,798
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sprengten
Nearest frequency peer: sprengten (-2 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 „stad“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Sportverans…
Sportveranstaltung
36,206 corpus weight
- sprengten
sprengten
36,205 corpus weight
- stad
stad
36,203 corpus weight
- stare
stare
36,201 corpus weight
- stattlich
stattlich
36,200 corpus weight
- steiniger
steiniger
36,199 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „stad“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stad |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ʃtaːt] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #63,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „stad“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
stad is uncommon German at frequency #63,798 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ʃtaːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "bayrisch / österreichisch: still, ruhig".
No generated misspelling entries exist for stad 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, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is stad, spelled S-T-A-D.
Definition
- 1bayrisch / österreichisch: still, ruhig
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stad appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bruckner liebt die stade Musik.
Sei doch stad ! - Sei doch still!
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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