Zikade
[t͡siˈkaːdə]
The verdict
“Zikade” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - an Pflanzen saugende Insekten der Gruppe der Gleichflügler (Homoptera)
Corpus desk
Index DE-zikade · Zikade · German
Zikade · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Z" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zikade |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t͡siˈkaːdə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Zikade“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Zikade is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [t͡siˈkaːdə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "an Pflanzen saugende Insekten der Gruppe der Gleichflügler (Homoptera)".
Zikade has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Zikade, spelled Z-I-K-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1an Pflanzen saugende Insekten der Gruppe der Gleichflügler (Homoptera)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Zikade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Weltweit sind etwa vierzigtausend Arten von Zikaden beschrieben.
„Aus dem grünen schattigen Dickichte tönte das schrille Zirpen der Zikaden, und der Wind verbreitete einen alles überwältigenden Blumen- und Blütenduft.“
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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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.