strammen

[ˈʃtʁamən]

/[ˈʃtʁamən]/ adj

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The verdict

“strammen” is uncommon German (frequency #53,273 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#53,273
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stramm

Corpus desk

Index DE-strammen · strammen · German

strammen · rank #53,273 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #53,273
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH Strahlenbelas…

Nearest frequency peer: Strahlenbelastung (-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 „strammen“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „strammen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for strammen
PropertyValue
Headwordstrammen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[ˈʃtʁamən]
Letters8
Frequency rank#53,273
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „strammen“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).strammenfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Strahlenbelastung“ (#53,272), „Stratege“ (#53,274), „strengsten“ (#53,275). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „strammen“ bei #53,273. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

strammen is uncommon German at frequency #53,273 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʃtʁamən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 12 senses are on record.

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for strammen, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 strammen, spelled S-T-R-A-M-M-E-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stramm
  2. 2
    Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stramm
  3. 3
    Genitiv Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stramm
  4. 4
    Dativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stramm
  5. 5
    Genitiv Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stramm
  6. 6
    Dativ Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stramm
  7. 7
    Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stramm
  8. 8
    Alle Kasus Plural alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stramm
  9. 9
    Genitiv Singular alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stramm
  10. 10
    Dativ Singular alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stramm
  11. 11
    Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stramm
  12. 12
    Alle Kasus Plural alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stramm

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "strammen"?
"strammen" is spelled S-T-R-A-M-M-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈʃtʁamən].
What does "strammen" mean?
As an adjective, "strammen" means: Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs stramm
How do you pronounce "strammen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "strammen" is [ˈʃtʁamən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "strammen" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "strammen", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Stratege#53,274thousand#53,292Somerset#53,249Tourneen#53,297

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list