Zürichsee
[ˈt͡syːʁɪçˌzeː]
The verdict
“Zürichsee” is uncommon German (frequency #59,377 among 1,996 “Z” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,377
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fünftgrößter See der Schweiz südöstlich von Zürich
Corpus desk
Index DE-zurichsee · Zürichsee · German
Zürichsee · rank #59,377 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,377
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH zärtlichen
Nearest frequency peer: zärtlichen (-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 „Zürichsee“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Zweitsprache
Zweitsprache
40,627 corpus weight
- Zwerchfell
Zwerchfell
40,626 corpus weight
- zärtlichen
zärtlichen
40,625 corpus weight
- Zürichsee
Zürichsee
40,624 corpus weight
- Öse
Öse
40,622 corpus weight
- Überdruck
Überdruck
40,621 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Zürichsee“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zürichsee |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡syːʁɪçˌzeː] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,377 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Zürichsee“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Zürichsee is uncommon German at frequency #59,377 among 1,996 “Z” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈt͡syːʁɪçˌzeː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "fünftgrößter See der Schweiz südöstlich von Zürich".
Zürichsee has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists 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 Zürichsee, spelled Z-Ü-R-I-C-H-S-E-E.
Definition
- 1fünftgrößter See der Schweiz südöstlich von Zürich
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Zürichsee appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Geologen der ETH Zürich haben entdeckt, dass drei große vorgeschichtliche Erdbeben in der Zentralschweiz heftige Sedimentrutschungen im Zürichsee auslösten.“
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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