accurate
The verdict
“accurate” is an uncommon German word, ranked #98,045 in German word frequency and used as an adverb.
- #98,045
- frequency rank, German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - mit Sorgfalt; sorgfältig, genau, speziell
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accurate |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,045 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “accurate” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for accurate is 8 letters long, classified as an adverb. Corpus data places it at rank #98,045 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "mit Sorgfalt; sorgfältig, genau, speziell".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for accurate, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is accurate, spelled A-C-C-U-R-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1mit Sorgfalt; sorgfältig, genau, speziell
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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Using “accurate”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-C-C-U-R-A-T-E - 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.