stranden
[ˈʃtʁandn̩]
The verdict
“stranden” is uncommon German (frequency #76,232 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,232
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (mit einem Schiff) auf Strand laufen
Corpus desk
Index DE-stranden · stranden · German
stranden · rank #76,232 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,232
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Straftatbestä…
Nearest frequency peer: Straftatbestände (-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 „stranden“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Stoffel
Stoffel
23,773 corpus weight
- Straftatbes…
Straftatbestände
23,770 corpus weight
- stranden
stranden
23,769 corpus weight
- strapazieren
strapazieren
23,768 corpus weight
- Stratmann
Stratmann
23,765 corpus weight
- Streichorch…
Streichorchester
23,764 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „stranden“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stranden |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃtʁandn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „stranden“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
stranden is uncommon German at frequency #76,232 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈʃtʁandn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for stranden, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is stranden, spelled S-T-R-A-N-D-E-N.
Definition
- 1(mit einem Schiff) auf Strand laufen
- 2mit einem Vorhaben scheitern
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stranden appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Als die Ankerkette gebrochen war, vertrieb die Bark und strandete auf Terschelling.
Immer wieder stranden Boote auf ihrer Irrfahrt auf Jamaika, Kuba oder den Bahamas, wo die Insassen in Gefängnissen landen, ehe sie in ihre Heimat abgeschoben werden.
Antonyms
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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