zinnen
[ˈt͡sɪnən]
The verdict
“zinnen” is uncommon German (frequency #51,861 among 1,996 “Z” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,861
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aus Zinn bestehend, aus Zinn gefertigt
Corpus desk
Index DE-zinnen · zinnen · German
zinnen · rank #51,861 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,861
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH Zielpunkt
Nearest frequency peer: Zielpunkt (-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 „zinnen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Ziegelei
Ziegelei
48,142 corpus weight
- Zielpunkt
Zielpunkt
48,141 corpus weight
- zinnen
zinnen
48,140 corpus weight
- zurückgefah…
zurückgefahren
48,139 corpus weight
- zurückschre…
zurückschrecken
48,138 corpus weight
- zusammenfüg…
zusammenfügen
48,137 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „zinnen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zinnen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈt͡sɪnən] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,861 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „zinnen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
zinnen is uncommon German at frequency #51,861 among 1,996 “Z” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈt͡sɪnən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "aus Zinn bestehend, aus Zinn gefertigt".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for zinnen, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is zinnen, spelled Z-I-N-N-E-N.
Definition
- 1aus Zinn bestehend, aus Zinn gefertigt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how zinnen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Meine Großeltern haben eine ganze Vitrine mit gesammelten zinnenen Bechern und Tellern.
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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