Stenz
[ʃtɛnt͡s]
The verdict
“Stenz” is uncommon German (frequency #99,133 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,133
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein übertrieben auf sein Äußeres (und seine Manieren) achtender Mann, eingebildeter Mann
Corpus desk
Index DE-stenz · Stenz · German
Stenz · rank #99,133 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,133
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Stellingen
Nearest frequency peer: Stellingen (-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 „Stenz“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Steckbriefe
Steckbriefe
871 corpus weight
- Steingut
Steingut
870 corpus weight
- Stellingen
Stellingen
869 corpus weight
- Stenz
Stenz
868 corpus weight
- sterbt
sterbt
867 corpus weight
- Stethoskop
Stethoskop
866 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Stenz“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Stenz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃtɛnt͡s] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Stenz“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Stenz is uncommon German at frequency #99,133 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ʃtɛnt͡s]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Stenz, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Stenz, spelled S-T-E-N-Z.
Definition
- 1ein übertrieben auf sein Äußeres (und seine Manieren) achtender Mann, eingebildeter Mann
- 2Zuhälter
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Stenz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er führt sich auf wie ein Stenz.
„Während ich Leona den Abschied von unserer gemeinsamen fröhlichen Jugend so schwer wie nur möglich machte, beobachtete ich ihren zukünftigen, seriösen Stenz aus den Augenwinkeln: es wäre ein sadistisches Vergnügen gewesen, den Freund leiden zu sehen.“
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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