Subkontinent
[ˈzʊpˌkɔntinɛnt]
The verdict
“Subkontinent” is uncommon German (frequency #85,904 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,904
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - großflächiger Teil eines Kontinents, der wegen seiner Ausmaße eine gewisse Eigenständigkeit besitzt
Corpus desk
Index DE-subkontinent · Subkontinent · German
Subkontinent · rank #85,904 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,904
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH stärkten
Nearest frequency peer: stärkten (-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 „Subkontinent“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Sturmwind
Sturmwind
14,100 corpus weight
- stärkten
stärkten
14,098 corpus weight
- Subkontinent
Subkontinent
14,097 corpus weight
- Subtraktion
Subtraktion
14,096 corpus weight
- subversiv
subversiv
14,095 corpus weight
- suggestiv
suggestiv
14,094 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Subkontinent“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Subkontinent |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzʊpˌkɔntinɛnt] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #85,904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Subkontinent“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Subkontinent is uncommon German at frequency #85,904 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈzʊpˌkɔntinɛnt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "großflächiger Teil eines Kontinents, der wegen seiner Ausmaße eine gewisse Eigenständigkeit besitzt".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Subkontinent, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Subkontinent, spelled S-U-B-K-O-N-T-I-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1großflächiger Teil eines Kontinents, der wegen seiner Ausmaße eine gewisse Eigenständigkeit besitzt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Subkontinent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Als Indischer Subkontinent wird die Landmasse südlich des Himalayas bezeichnet, auf der die Staaten Bangladesch, Bhutan, Indien, Nepal, Pakistan und Sri Lanka liegen, die wiederum einen Teil von Südasien bilden.“
„1947 wurde der Subkontinent geteilt, Millionen Muslime flohen nach Pakistan.“
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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