Störenfried
[ˈʃtøːʁənˌfʁiːt]
The verdict
“Störenfried” is uncommon German (frequency #70,853 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,853
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Person, die mit ihren Handlungen etwas/jemanden stört
Corpus desk
Index DE-storenfried · Störenfried · German
Störenfried · rank #70,853 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,853
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 107,600
- PHOTO-FINISH stählerne
Nearest frequency peer: stählerne (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Störenfried”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- studier
studier
29,151 corpus weight
- Stummel
Stummel
29,150 corpus weight
- stählerne
stählerne
29,149 corpus weight
- Störenfried
Störenfried
29,148 corpus weight
- Subkulturen
Subkulturen
29,147 corpus weight
- subventioni…
subventionierte
29,146 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Störenfried” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Störenfried |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtøːʁənˌfʁiːt] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #70,853 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Störenfried” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Störenfried is uncommon German at frequency #70,853 among 107,600 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃtøːʁənˌfʁiːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Person, die mit ihren Handlungen etwas/jemanden stört".
Störenfried doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 Störenfried, spelled S-T-Ö-R-E-N-F-R-I-E-D.
Definition
- 1Person, die mit ihren Handlungen etwas/jemanden stört
Synonyms
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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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.