Wittstock
[ˈvɪtˌʃtɔk]
The verdict
“Wittstock” is uncommon German (frequency #69,906 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,906
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Stadt in Brandenburg, Deutschland
Corpus desk
Index DE-wittstock · Wittstock · German
Wittstock · rank #69,906 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,906
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Winterhalbjahr
Nearest frequency peer: Winterhalbjahr (-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 „Wittstock“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Wiederaufba…
Wiederaufbaus
30,098 corpus weight
- wimmern
wimmern
30,097 corpus weight
- Winterhalbj…
Winterhalbjahr
30,096 corpus weight
- Wittstock
Wittstock
30,095 corpus weight
- Wohnstätte
Wohnstätte
30,094 corpus weight
- Wolkenstein
Wolkenstein
30,093 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Wittstock“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wittstock |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈvɪtˌʃtɔk] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Wittstock“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Wittstock is uncommon German at frequency #69,906 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈvɪtˌʃtɔk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Stadt in Brandenburg, Deutschland".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Wittstock, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 Wittstock, spelled W-I-T-T-S-T-O-C-K.
Definition
- 1eine Stadt in Brandenburg, Deutschland
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Wittstock appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wittstock liegt in Deutschlands Osten.
„Der Wirkungsbereich von Feldwebel Bieselang – seit zwei Jahren verwitwet, Vater einer mannbaren, außerordentlich hübschen Tochter – lag 95 Kilometer nordwestlich von der Reichshauptstadt Berlin, nahe dem Ort Wittstock an der Dosse.“
Synonyms
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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