Zaire
[zaˈʔiːʁə]
The verdict
“Zaire” is uncommon German (frequency #77,578 among 1,996 “Z” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,578
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Staat in Zentralafrika
Corpus desk
Index DE-zaire · Zaire · German
Zaire · rank #77,578 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,578
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH Zapfenstreich
Nearest frequency peer: Zapfenstreich (+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 „Zaire“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- wählbare
wählbare
22,428 corpus weight
- Zaire
Zaire
22,423 corpus weight
- Zapfenstrei…
Zapfenstreich
22,422 corpus weight
- Zeitungsaus…
Zeitungsausschnitte
22,420 corpus weight
- zellulären
zellulären
22,419 corpus weight
- Zensor
Zensor
22,418 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Zaire“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zaire |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [zaˈʔiːʁə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,578 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Zaire“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Zaire is uncommon German at frequency #77,578 among 1,996 “Z” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [zaˈʔiːʁə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Staat in Zentralafrika".
No misspelling variants are generated for Zaire in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Zaire, spelled Z-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Staat in Zentralafrika
This word in other languages
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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