typhoon

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The verdict

“typhoon” is uncommon German (frequency #99,202 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#99,202
frequency rank, German
2,684
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tropischer Wirbelsturm im nordwestlichen Teil des Pazifischen Ozeans

Corpus desk

Index DE-typhoon · typhoon · German

typhoon · rank #99,202 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #99,202
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,684
  • PHOTO-FINISH tödlichste

Nearest frequency peer: tödlichste (+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 „typhoon“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for typhoon
PropertyValue
Headwordtyphoon
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters7
Frequency rank#99,202
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „typhoon“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).typhoonfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „tödlichste“ (#99,203), „Turku“ (#99,200), „Tönning“ (#99,204). Unter 2,684 „T“-Lemmata liegt „typhoon“ bei #99,202. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

typhoon is uncommon German at frequency #99,202 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "tropischer Wirbelsturm im nordwestlichen Teil des Pazifischen Ozeans".

No generated misspelling entries exist for typhoon in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is typhoon, spelled T-Y-P-H-O-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    tropischer Wirbelsturm im nordwestlichen Teil des Pazifischen Ozeans

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 "typhoon"?
"typhoon" is spelled T-Y-P-H-O-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "typhoon" mean?
As a noun, "typhoon" means: tropischer Wirbelsturm im nordwestlichen Teil des Pazifischen Ozeans
How do you pronounce "typhoon"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "typhoon" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "typhoon" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Tönning#99,204Trittau#99,194Tripoli#99,193Tenside#99,170

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list