Stratosphäre
[ʃtʁatoˈsfɛːʁə]
The verdict
“Stratosphäre” is uncommon German (frequency #64,748 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,748
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zweite Schicht der Erdatmosphäre im Bereich von etwa 12 Kilometer an bis 50 Kilometer Höhe über der Erdoberfläche
Corpus desk
Index DE-stratosphare · Stratosphäre · German
Stratosphäre · rank #64,748 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,748
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Straubinger
Nearest frequency peer: Straubinger (+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 „Stratosphäre“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- strada
strada
35,256 corpus weight
- Strafverfah…
Strafverfahrens
35,255 corpus weight
- Stratosphäre
Stratosphäre
35,253 corpus weight
- Straubinger
Straubinger
35,252 corpus weight
- Streifens
Streifens
35,251 corpus weight
- Stromtrassen
Stromtrassen
35,250 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Stratosphäre“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Stratosphäre |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃtʁatoˈsfɛːʁə] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #64,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Stratosphäre“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Stratosphäre is uncommon German at frequency #64,748 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ʃtʁatoˈsfɛːʁə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "zweite Schicht der Erdatmosphäre im Bereich von etwa 12 Kilometer an bis 50 Kilometer Höhe über der Erdoberfläche".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Stratosphäre, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Stratosphäre, spelled S-T-R-A-T-O-S-P-H-Ä-R-E.
Definition
- 1zweite Schicht der Erdatmosphäre im Bereich von etwa 12 Kilometer an bis 50 Kilometer Höhe über der Erdoberfläche
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Stratosphäre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Stratosphäre wird nach unten hin von der Tropopause und nach oben hin von der Stratopause begrenzt.
90 Minuten hatte der Aufstieg in die Stratosphäre über Spanien gedauert, den ein Fotoapparat und eine Videokamera, die am Ballon befestigt waren, dokumentiert haben.
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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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