Temeswar
[ˈtɛmɛʃvaːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Temeswar” is uncommon German (frequency #85,926 among 35,386 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,926
- frequency rank, German
- 35,386
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Stadt in der rumänischen Region Banat
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Temeswar |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈtɛmɛʃvaːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Temeswar” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Temeswar is uncommon German at frequency #85,926 among 35,386 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈtɛmɛʃvaːɐ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Stadt in der rumänischen Region Banat".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Temeswar in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Temeswar, spelled T-E-M-E-S-W-A-R.
Definition
- 1Stadt in der rumänischen Region Banat
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 “Temeswar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is T-E-M-E-S-W-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.