Sundern
[ˈzʊndɐn]
The verdict
“Sundern” is uncommon German (frequency #65,741 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,741
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Stadt im Hochsauerlandkreis in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
Corpus desk
Index DE-sundern · Sundern · German
Sundern · rank #65,741 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,741
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH sua
Nearest frequency peer: sua (-2 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 „Sundern“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Stuhr
Stuhr
34,265 corpus weight
- stählernen
stählernen
34,263 corpus weight
- sua
sua
34,262 corpus weight
- Sundern
Sundern
34,260 corpus weight
- swim
swim
34,256 corpus weight
- Swingerclub
Swingerclub
34,255 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Sundern“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sundern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈzʊndɐn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,741 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Sundern“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Sundern is uncommon German at frequency #65,741 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈzʊndɐn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Stadt im Hochsauerlandkreis in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Sundern, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Sundern, spelled S-U-N-D-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1eine Stadt im Hochsauerlandkreis in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sundern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sundern liegt im Westen von Deutschland.
Knapp 30.000 Menschen leben in Sundern.
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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