Straelen
[ˈʃtʁaːlən]
The verdict
“Straelen” is uncommon German (frequency #83,350 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,350
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
Corpus desk
Index DE-straelen · Straelen · German
Straelen · rank #83,350 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,350
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Stockerau
Nearest frequency peer: Stockerau (-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 „Straelen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- stink
stink
16,655 corpus weight
- Stipendiums
Stipendiums
16,654 corpus weight
- stitch
stitch
16,653 corpus weight
- Stockerau
Stockerau
16,652 corpus weight
- Straelen
Straelen
16,651 corpus weight
- Streitkultur
Streitkultur
16,648 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Straelen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Straelen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtʁaːlən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Straelen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Straelen is uncommon German at frequency #83,350 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈʃtʁaːlən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Straelen in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 Straelen, spelled S-T-R-A-E-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Straelen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Straelen liegt im Westen Deutschlands, nahe der niederländischen Grenze.
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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