Stirnband
[ˈʃtɪʁnˌbant]
The verdict
“Stirnband” is uncommon German (frequency #69,738 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,738
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Band aus Stoff, das eng rundherum um den Kopf anliegend die Stirn bedeckt; es dient als Schmuck, Schutz vor Kälte oder dem in die Augen laufenden Schweiß beim Sport, es kann außerdem als Halterung ...
Corpus desk
Index DE-stirnband · Stirnband · German
Stirnband · rank #69,738 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,738
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Stieler
Nearest frequency peer: Stieler (-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 „Stirnband“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Staufenberg
Staufenberg
30,268 corpus weight
- Steuererlei…
Steuererleichterungen
30,265 corpus weight
- Stieler
Stieler
30,264 corpus weight
- Stirnband
Stirnband
30,263 corpus weight
- Stoffbeutel
Stoffbeutel
30,261 corpus weight
- Strombedarf
Strombedarf
30,258 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Stirnband“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Stirnband |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtɪʁnˌbant] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,738 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Stirnband“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Stirnband is uncommon German at frequency #69,738 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃtɪʁnˌbant]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Band aus Stoff, das eng rundherum um den Kopf anliegend die Stirn bedeckt; es dient als Schmuck, Schutz vor Kälte oder dem in die Augen laufenden Schweiß beim Sport, es kann außerdem als Halterung ...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Stirnband, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Stirnband, spelled S-T-I-R-N-B-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Band aus Stoff, das eng rundherum um den Kopf anliegend die Stirn bedeckt; es dient als Schmuck, Schutz vor Kälte oder dem in die Augen laufenden Schweiß beim Sport, es kann außerdem als Halterung für Federn (Schmuck) oder einer Lampe/Kamera (beispielsweise von Ärzten) getragen werden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Stirnband appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mit dem Stirnband versucht sie, beim Sport ihre wilde Mähne zu bändigen.
Das Stirnband soll verhindern, dass ihm der Schweiß in die Augen läuft.
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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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