Stierkampf
[ˈʃtiːɐ̯ˌkamp͡f]
The verdict
“Stierkampf” is uncommon German (frequency #84,621 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,621
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sportveranstaltung, bei der Menschen nach bestimmten Regeln gegen einen Stier kämpfen
Corpus desk
Index DE-stierkampf · Stierkampf · German
Stierkampf · rank #84,621 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,621
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH stichhaltige
Nearest frequency peer: stichhaltige (-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 „Stierkampf“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Stewardessen
Stewardessen
15,382 corpus weight
- stichhaltige
stichhaltige
15,381 corpus weight
- Stierkampf
Stierkampf
15,380 corpus weight
- stilisieren
stilisieren
15,379 corpus weight
- stinkend
stinkend
15,378 corpus weight
- Stockbrot
Stockbrot
15,377 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Stierkampf“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Stierkampf |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtiːɐ̯ˌkamp͡f] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Stierkampf“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Stierkampf is uncommon German at frequency #84,621 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃtiːɐ̯ˌkamp͡f]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sportveranstaltung, bei der Menschen nach bestimmten Regeln gegen einen Stier kämpfen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Stierkampf, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists 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 Stierkampf, spelled S-T-I-E-R-K-A-M-P-F.
Definition
- 1Sportveranstaltung, bei der Menschen nach bestimmten Regeln gegen einen Stier kämpfen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Stierkampf appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Für Tierschützer ist der Stierkampf ein rotes Tuch.
„Beim Stierkampf (Corrida), dem in südlichen Ländern häufig noch Kultcharakter zukommt und der dort als hohe Kunst betrieben wird, stehen sich Mensch und Tier in einem gefährlichen Zweikampf gegenüber.“
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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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