Stylus
[ˈʃtyːlʊs]
The verdict
“Stylus” is an uncommon German word, ranked #78,605 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #78,605
- frequency rank, German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - der verlängerte Teil eines Ovariums in der Blüte, der die Narbe trägt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Stylus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtyːlʊs] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Stylus” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Stylus is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃtyːlʊs]. Corpus data places it at rank #78,605 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Stylus in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Stylus, spelled S-T-Y-L-U-S.
Definition
- 1der verlängerte Teil eines Ovariums in der Blüte, der die Narbe trägt.
- 2griffelförmiges Rudiment am Hinterleib von Insekten
- 3Endteil einer Geißel bzw. eines Flagellums bei Antennen bestimmter Insekten
Synonyms
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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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Using “Stylus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-T-Y-L-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈʃtyːlʊs] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.