Staufer
[ˈʃtaʊ̯fɐ]
The verdict
“Staufer” is uncommon German (frequency #54,914 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,914
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Angehöriger des gleichnamigen Geschlechtes
Corpus desk
Index DE-staufer · Staufer · German
Staufer · rank #54,914 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,914
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH startest
Nearest frequency peer: startest (-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 „Staufer“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Stammgäste
Stammgäste
45,090 corpus weight
- startest
startest
45,088 corpus weight
- Staufer
Staufer
45,087 corpus weight
- Steinweg
Steinweg
45,086 corpus weight
- sterile
sterile
45,085 corpus weight
- Sternschnup…
Sternschnuppe
45,084 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Staufer“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Staufer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtaʊ̯fɐ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Staufer“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Staufer is uncommon German at frequency #54,914 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃtaʊ̯fɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Angehöriger des gleichnamigen Geschlechtes".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Staufer, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Staufer, spelled S-T-A-U-F-E-R.
Definition
- 1Angehöriger des gleichnamigen Geschlechtes
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Staufer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Friedrich Barbarossa war wohl der bekannteste Sprössling des Geschlechtes der Staufer.
„Auch in der Literatur und in der bildenden Kunst war die Geschichte der Staufer ein immer wieder mit nationalem Pathos aufgegriffenes Thema.“
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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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