Staufer
[ˈʃtaʊ̯fɐ]
The verdict
“Staufer” is uncommon German (frequency #54,914 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,914
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Angehöriger des gleichnamigen Geschlechtes
| 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) |
Where “Staufer” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Staufer is uncommon German at frequency #54,914 among 107,600 “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
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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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Using “Staufer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-T-A-U-F-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈʃtaʊ̯fɐ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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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.