Sünderin

[ˈzʏndəʁɪn]

/[ˈzʏndəʁɪn]/ noun

The verdict

“Sünderin” is uncommon German (frequency #88,369 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#88,369
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - weibliche Person, die etwas Unerwünschtes/Verbotenes (eine Sünde) begangen hat

Corpus desk

Index DE-sunderin · Sünderin · German

Sünderin · rank #88,369 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #88,369
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH südwestliche

Nearest frequency peer: südwestliche (-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 „Sünderin“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Sünderin“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Sünderin
PropertyValue
HeadwordSünderin
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈzʏndəʁɪn]
Letters8
Frequency rank#88,369
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Sünderin“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).Sünderinfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „südwestliche“ (#88,368), „tactical“ (#88,370), „südländischen“ (#88,367). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „Sünderin“ bei #88,369. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Sünderin is uncommon German at frequency #88,369 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈzʏndəʁɪn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "weibliche Person, die etwas Unerwünschtes/Verbotenes (eine Sünde) begangen hat".

Sünderin doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Sünderin, spelled S-Ü-N-D-E-R-I-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    weibliche Person, die etwas Unerwünschtes/Verbotenes (eine Sünde) begangen hat

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Sünderin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Erzählungen von namenlosen Sünderinnen und Ehebrecherinnen wurden schon früh mit ihrem Namen verknüpft, und auch heute noch kursieren Legenden, die besagen, Maria [Magdalena] habe ein intimes Verhältnis zu Jesus gehabt und nach seinem Tod ein Kind von ihm bekommen.“:
  2. „Es war die Haltung, in der sie betete, in der sie als arme Sünderin Gott um Vergebung anflehte.“

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Sünderin"?
"Sünderin" is spelled S-Ü-N-D-E-R-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈzʏndəʁɪn].
What does "Sünderin" mean?
As a noun, "Sünderin" means: weibliche Person, die etwas Unerwünschtes/Verbotenes (eine Sünde) begangen hat
How do you pronounce "Sünderin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Sünderin" is [ˈzʏndəʁɪn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Sünderin" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Sünderin", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list