Streitwagen
[ˈʃtʁaɪ̯tˌvaːɡn̩]
The verdict
“Streitwagen” is uncommon German (frequency #79,785 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,785
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Antike: von Pferden gezogener Wagen, der im Kampf eingesetzt wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-streitwagen · Streitwagen · German
Streitwagen · rank #79,785 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,785
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH stressiger
Nearest frequency peer: stressiger (+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 „Streitwagen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Strafandroh…
Strafandrohung
20,220 corpus weight
- straflos
straflos
20,219 corpus weight
- Streitwagen
Streitwagen
20,216 corpus weight
- stressiger
stressiger
20,215 corpus weight
- Stripperinn…
Stripperinnen
20,213 corpus weight
- Strohfeuer
Strohfeuer
20,212 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Streitwagen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Streitwagen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtʁaɪ̯tˌvaːɡn̩] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #79,785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Streitwagen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Streitwagen is uncommon German at frequency #79,785 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃtʁaɪ̯tˌvaːɡn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Antike: von Pferden gezogener Wagen, der im Kampf eingesetzt wird".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Streitwagen in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Streitwagen, spelled S-T-R-E-I-T-W-A-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1Antike: von Pferden gezogener Wagen, der im Kampf eingesetzt wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Streitwagen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wie bildliche Darstellungen und Grabfunde belegen, waren die hölzernen Streitwagen zweiräderig.“
„Die Mumienabteilung ist das Herz des Ägyptischen Museums, vorher mussten wir an Sphinxen und Göttern vorbei, die entweder keinen Kopf oder keinen Rumpf mehr hatten, aber auch an Nachbauten von Streitwagen, für die ich ein größeres Faible besitze.“
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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