Wiesbaden
"wiesbaden" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Wiesbaden” is uncommon English (frequency #55,857 among 12,113 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,857
- frequency rank, English
- 12,113
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The capital city of Hesse, Germany, on the River Rhine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wiesbaden |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Wiesbaden” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Wiesbaden is uncommon English at frequency #55,857 among 12,113 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The capital city of Hesse, Germany, on the River Rhine.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Wiesbaden in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From German Wiesbaden. The correct English form is Wiesbaden, spelled W-I-E-S-B-A-D-E-N.
Definition
- 1The capital city of Hesse, Germany, on the River Rhine.
Etymology
From German Wiesbaden.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Wiesbaden”
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- The one correct English spelling is W-I-E-S-B-A-D-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.