zon
[zɔn]
The verdict
“zon” is uncommon German (frequency #69,922 among 1,996 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,922
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Zentralgestirn eines Sonnensystems
Corpus desk
Index DE-zon · zon · German
zon · rank #69,922 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,922
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH ZNS
Nearest frequency peer: ZNS (-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 „zon“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Zifferblatt
Zifferblatt
30,081 corpus weight
- ZNS
ZNS
30,080 corpus weight
- zon
zon
30,079 corpus weight
- zugeschrieb…
zugeschriebenen
30,078 corpus weight
- zugeteilten
zugeteilten
30,077 corpus weight
- zurückerhal…
zurückerhalten
30,076 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „zon“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zon |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [zɔn] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #69,922 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „zon“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
zon is uncommon German at frequency #69,922 among 1,996 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [zɔn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "das Zentralgestirn eines Sonnensystems".
No generated misspelling entries exist for zon in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is zon, spelled Z-O-N.
Definition
- 1das Zentralgestirn eines Sonnensystems
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how zon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De aarde draait om de zon.
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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