stalag
"stalag" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stalag” is uncommon English (frequency #65,533 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,533
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A German prisoner-of-war camp, especially in World War II.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stalag · stalag · English
stalag · rank #65,533 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,533
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH stackable
Nearest frequency peer: stackable (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “stalag”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- spica
spica
34,474 corpus weight
- squawking
squawking
34,471 corpus weight
- stackable
stackable
34,469 corpus weight
- stalag
stalag
34,468 corpus weight
- storytime
storytime
34,466 corpus weight
- strudel
strudel
34,464 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “stalag” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stalag |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “stalag” in English
Rare enough to double-check
stalag is uncommon English at frequency #65,533 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
stalag doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from German Stalag (“POW camp”). The correct English form is stalag, spelled S-T-A-L-A-G.
Definition
- 1A German prisoner-of-war camp, especially in World War II.
- 2A genre of Nazi exploitation Holocaust pornography in Israel that flourished in the 1950s and early 1960; a work in that genre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stalag appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
stalag fiction; a stalag novel
After decades in dusty back rooms and closets, the Stalags, a peculiar Hebrew concoction of Nazism, sex and violence, are re-emerging in the public eye. And with them comes a rekindled debate on the cultural representation here of Nazism and the Holocaust, and whether they have been unduly mixed in with a kind of sexual perversion and voyeurism that has p…
Etymology
Borrowed from German Stalag (“POW camp”).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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