Sturmtief
[ˈʃtʊʁmˌtiːf]
The verdict
“Sturmtief” is uncommon German (frequency #60,119 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,119
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tiefdruckgebiet mit hohen Windgeschwindigkeiten (Stärke 9 bis 11 auf der Beaufortskala)
Corpus desk
Index DE-sturmtief · Sturmtief · German
Sturmtief · rank #60,119 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,119
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sturzflug
Nearest frequency peer: Sturzflug (+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 „Sturmtief“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- streck
streck
39,886 corpus weight
- Stripperin
Stripperin
39,885 corpus weight
- Stummfilm
Stummfilm
39,884 corpus weight
- Sturmtief
Sturmtief
39,882 corpus weight
- Sturzflug
Sturzflug
39,881 corpus weight
- Superintend…
Superintendenten
39,878 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Sturmtief“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sturmtief |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtʊʁmˌtiːf] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Sturmtief“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Sturmtief is uncommon German at frequency #60,119 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃtʊʁmˌtiːf]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tiefdruckgebiet mit hohen Windgeschwindigkeiten (Stärke 9 bis 11 auf der Beaufortskala)".
No misspelling variants are generated for Sturmtief in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Sturmtief, spelled S-T-U-R-M-T-I-E-F.
Definition
- 1Tiefdruckgebiet mit hohen Windgeschwindigkeiten (Stärke 9 bis 11 auf der Beaufortskala)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sturmtief appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Das Sturmtief zog inzwischen in Richtung Kanada weiter.“
„Ihre Mutter hatte ja recht, das Sturmtief, das gerade übers Land zog, rüttelte immer wieder kräftig am Auto, was zur Folge hatte, dass ihre Mutter noch langsamer fuhr.“
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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