Xander
[ˈksandɐ]
The verdict
“Xander” is uncommon German (frequency #84,815 among 21 “X” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,815
- frequency rank, German
- 21
- “X” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - männlicher Vorname, Kurzform von Alexander
Corpus desk
Index DE-xander · Xander · German
Xander · rank #84,815 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,815
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 21
- PHOTO-FINISH Wörterbuchs
Nearest frequency peer: Wörterbuchs (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Xander”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Wrangler
Wrangler
15,192 corpus weight
- wutentbrannt
wutentbrannt
15,191 corpus weight
- Wörterbuchs
Wörterbuchs
15,188 corpus weight
- Xander
Xander
15,186 corpus weight
- Yak
Yak
15,183 corpus weight
- Yolanda
Yolanda
15,180 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Xander” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Xander |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈksandɐ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Xander” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
Xander is uncommon German at frequency #84,815 among 21 “X” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈksandɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "männlicher Vorname, Kurzform von Alexander".
No misspelling variants are generated for Xander 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, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Xander, spelled X-A-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1männlicher Vorname, Kurzform von Alexander
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Xander appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Xander Mustermann ist ein schöner Junge.
Xander ist 20 Jahre alt.
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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