accurate

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The verdict

“accurate” is uncommon German (frequency #98,045 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#98,045
frequency rank, German
6,976
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit Sorgfalt; sorgfältig, genau, speziell

Corpus desk

Index DE-accurate · accurate · German

accurate · rank #98,045 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #98,045
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,976
  • PHOTO-FINISH aci

Nearest frequency peer: aci (+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 „accurate“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „accurate“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for accurate
PropertyValue
Headwordaccurate
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdverb
Letters8
Frequency rank#98,045
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „accurate“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).accuratefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „aci“ (#98,046), „abrüsten“ (#98,043), „Ackerman“ (#98,047). Unter 6,976 „A“-Lemmata liegt „accurate“ bei #98,045. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

accurate is uncommon German at frequency #98,045 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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

  1. 1
    mit Sorgfalt; sorgfältig, genau, speziell

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how accurate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „tamen viso opust, cauto est opus, ut hoc sobrie sineque arbitris / accurate agatur, docte et diligenter;“ (Plaut. Capt. 225–226)
  2. „abeamus ergo intro, haec uti meditemur cogitate, / ut accurate et commode hoc quod agendumst exsequamur, / ne quid, ubi miles venerit, titubetur.“ (Plaut. Mil. 944–946)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "accurate"?
"accurate" is spelled A-C-C-U-R-A-T-E.
What does "accurate" mean?
As an adverb, "accurate" means: mit Sorgfalt; sorgfältig, genau, speziell
What language does "accurate" come from?
"accurate" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "accurate", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

abrüsten#98,043Ackerman#98,047Allmende#98,069Amorbach#98,083

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list