Surinam
[ˈzuːʁinam]
The verdict
“Surinam” is uncommon German (frequency #97,782 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,782
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Land in Südamerika
Corpus desk
Index DE-surinam · Surinam · German
Surinam · rank #97,782 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,782
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH surveys
Nearest frequency peer: surveys (+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 „Surinam“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- störrisch
störrisch
2,223 corpus weight
- Suchtgefahr
Suchtgefahr
2,222 corpus weight
- sudetendeut…
sudetendeutsche
2,221 corpus weight
- Surinam
Surinam
2,219 corpus weight
- surveys
surveys
2,218 corpus weight
- svoboda
svoboda
2,217 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Surinam“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Surinam |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈzuːʁinam] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Surinam“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Surinam is uncommon German at frequency #97,782 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈzuːʁinam]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Land in Südamerika".
Surinam has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Surinam, spelled S-U-R-I-N-A-M.
Definition
- 1Land in Südamerika
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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