Strontium
The verdict
“Strontium” is an uncommon German word, ranked #97,771 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #97,771
- frequency rank, German
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: chemisches Element mit der Ordnungszahl 38, das zur Gruppe der Erdalkalimetalle gehört
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Strontium |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtʁɔnt͡si̯ʊm] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Strontium” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Strontium is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃtʁɔnt͡si̯ʊm]. Corpus data places it at rank #97,771 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "chemisches Element mit der Ordnungszahl 38, das zur Gruppe der Erdalkalimetalle gehört".
No misspelling variants are generated for Strontium in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Strontium, spelled S-T-R-O-N-T-I-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1chemisches Element mit der Ordnungszahl 38, das zur Gruppe der Erdalkalimetalle gehört
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #97,771 in German
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-T-R-O-N-T-I-U-M — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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