sterblich
[ˈʃtɛʁplɪç]
The verdict
“sterblich” is uncommon German (frequency #66,728 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,728
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit begrenzter Lebenszeit, unfähig dem Tode dauerhaft zu entgehen
Corpus desk
Index DE-sterblich · sterblich · German
sterblich · rank #66,728 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,728
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Stephansplatz
Nearest frequency peer: Stephansplatz (-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 „sterblich“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- stem
stem
33,275 corpus weight
- Stephanspla…
Stephansplatz
33,274 corpus weight
- sterblich
sterblich
33,273 corpus weight
- sterilisier…
sterilisieren
33,272 corpus weight
- Steuervorte…
Steuervorteile
33,271 corpus weight
- Sticheleien
Sticheleien
33,270 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „sterblich“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sterblich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʃtɛʁplɪç] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,728 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „sterblich“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
sterblich is uncommon German at frequency #66,728 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʃtɛʁplɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mit begrenzter Lebenszeit, unfähig dem Tode dauerhaft zu entgehen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sterblich, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is sterblich, spelled S-T-E-R-B-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1mit begrenzter Lebenszeit, unfähig dem Tode dauerhaft zu entgehen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sterblich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wir sind alle sterblich.
„Die Identifikation der sterblichen Überreste der Anschlagsopfer ist mühselig, die Untersuchungen der Gerichtsmediziner stützen sich auf knapp 20.000 sterbliche Überreste.“
Antonyms
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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