Stadt
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#206
in German word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Stadt is aGermannoun. It means: meist größere, zivile, zentralisierte, abgegrenzte, häufig und oft historisch mit Stadtrechten ausgestattete Siedlung Pronounced [ʃtat]. It ranks #206 in German word frequency. Often confused with Star and Stau.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Stadt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃtat] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #206 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Stadt is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃtat]. Corpus data places it at rank #206 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for Stadt, with forms such as "satdt", "sstadt", and "staddt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Star", "Stau", "stan", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Stadt, spelled S-T-A-D-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1meist größere, zivile, zentralisierte, abgegrenzte, häufig und oft historisch mit Stadtrechten ausgestattete Siedlung
- 2die Bevölkerung einer Stadt^([1])
- 3Verwaltung, Regierung einer Stadt^([1])
- 4wirtschaftliches oder kulturelles Zentrum einer Stadt^([1])
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: satdt,sstadt,staddt,stadtt,statd,stdat,sttadt,tsadt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Stadt
Misspelling Variants of "Stadt"
Frequency rank: #206 in German
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