Staumauer
[ˈʃtaʊ̯ˌmaʊ̯ɐ]
The verdict
“Staumauer” is uncommon German (frequency #78,578 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,578
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mauer, hinter der ein Stausee oder ein Fluss aufgestaut ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-staumauer · Staumauer · German
Staumauer · rank #78,578 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,578
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH stations
Nearest frequency peer: stations (-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 „Staumauer“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Stadtreinig…
Stadtreinigung
21,428 corpus weight
- Stahlblech
Stahlblech
21,427 corpus weight
- Stammkneipe
Stammkneipe
21,426 corpus weight
- stations
stations
21,424 corpus weight
- Staumauer
Staumauer
21,423 corpus weight
- stehenlassen
stehenlassen
21,422 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Staumauer“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Staumauer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtaʊ̯ˌmaʊ̯ɐ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,578 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Staumauer“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Staumauer is uncommon German at frequency #78,578 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃtaʊ̯ˌmaʊ̯ɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mauer, hinter der ein Stausee oder ein Fluss aufgestaut ist".
Staumauer has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Staumauer, spelled S-T-A-U-M-A-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mauer, hinter der ein Stausee oder ein Fluss aufgestaut ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Staumauer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Reporter erklärte, dass die Staumauer am oberen Ende beschädigt sei und der Schaden sich glücklicherweise nur bis etwa zwei Meter unter die Wasserlinie erstrecke.“
„Ried tritt ans Geländer der Staumauer.“
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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