Zermatt
/ˈzɜːmat/
"zermatt" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Zermatt” is uncommon English (frequency #69,606 among 265 “Z” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,606
- frequency rank, English
- 265
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A municipality and ski resort town in Valais canton, Switzerland.
Corpus desk
Index EN-zermatt · Zermatt · English
Zermatt · rank #69,606 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,606
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 265
- PHOTO-FINISH Zaria
Nearest frequency peer: Zaria (-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 “Zermatt”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- xor
xor
30,404 corpus weight
- Yandex
Yandex
30,401 corpus weight
- yass
yass
30,400 corpus weight
- yuge
yuge
30,397 corpus weight
- Zaria
Zaria
30,396 corpus weight
- Zermatt
Zermatt
30,395 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Zermatt” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zermatt |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈzɜːmat/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Zermatt” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Zermatt is uncommon English at frequency #69,606 among 265 “Z” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈzɜːmat/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A municipality and ski resort town in Valais canton, Switzerland.".
Zermatt doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from German. The correct English form is Zermatt, spelled Z-E-R-M-A-T-T.
Definition
- 1A municipality and ski resort town in Valais canton, Switzerland.
Etymology
Borrowed from German.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).