Stängel
[ˈʃtɛŋl̩]
The verdict
“Stängel” is uncommon German (frequency #54,931 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,931
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hauptspross einer nicht krautigen Pflanze
Corpus desk
Index DE-stangel · Stängel · German
Stängel · rank #54,931 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,931
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Stuttgarts
Nearest frequency peer: Stuttgarts (-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 „Stängel“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Studentensc…
Studentenschaft
45,073 corpus weight
- Studierender
Studierender
45,072 corpus weight
- Stuttgarts
Stuttgarts
45,071 corpus weight
- Stängel
Stängel
45,070 corpus weight
- summt
summt
45,069 corpus weight
- Symposion
Symposion
45,068 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Stängel“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Stängel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtɛŋl̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Stängel“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Stängel is uncommon German at frequency #54,931 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃtɛŋl̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Stängel has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Stängel, spelled S-T-Ä-N-G-E-L.
Definition
- 1Hauptspross einer nicht krautigen Pflanze
- 2männliches Glied, Penis
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Stängel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Löwenzahn hat einen hohlen Stängel.
„Quanen haben grüne Blätter und grüne Stängel.“
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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