sternförmig
[ˈʃtɛʁnˌfœʁmɪç]
The verdict
“sternförmig” is uncommon German (frequency #88,333 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,333
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in Form eines Sterns
Corpus desk
Index DE-sternformig · sternförmig · German
sternförmig · rank #88,333 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,333
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Steuernummer
Nearest frequency peer: Steuernummer (+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 „sternförmig“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Steinmetze
Steinmetze
11,671 corpus weight
- sternförmig
sternförmig
11,668 corpus weight
- Steuernummer
Steuernummer
11,667 corpus weight
- Stichpunkte
Stichpunkte
11,666 corpus weight
- Stickoxid
Stickoxid
11,665 corpus weight
- stimmungsvo…
stimmungsvolles
11,664 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „sternförmig“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sternförmig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʃtɛʁnˌfœʁmɪç] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #88,333 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „sternförmig“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
sternförmig is uncommon German at frequency #88,333 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʃtɛʁnˌfœʁmɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "in Form eines Sterns".
sternförmig doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 sternförmig, spelled S-T-E-R-N-F-Ö-R-M-I-G.
Definition
- 1in Form eines Sterns
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sternförmig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Pflanze bringt zahlreiche weiße, sternförmige Blüten hervor.
„Für die Ordenssterne schneidet man eine Grundform von Pappe und beklebt sie so schön als möglich mit sternförmigen Scheiben von Gold- und farbigem Glanzpapier.“
Synonyms
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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