älterem
[ˈɛltəʁəm]
The verdict
“älterem” is uncommon German (frequency #88,585 among 75 “Ä” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,585
- frequency rank, German
- 75
- “Ä” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Komparativs des Adjektivs alt
Corpus desk
Index DE-alterem · älterem · German
älterem · rank #88,585 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,585
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 75
- PHOTO-FINISH Zündschloss
Nearest frequency peer: Zündschloss (-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 „älterem“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- zwinkert
zwinkert
11,419 corpus weight
- Zündschloss
Zündschloss
11,417 corpus weight
- älterem
älterem
11,416 corpus weight
- Äuglein
Äuglein
11,415 corpus weight
- Öffnungszeit
Öffnungszeit
11,414 corpus weight
- übereinstim…
übereinstimme
11,413 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „älterem“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | älterem |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈɛltəʁəm] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „älterem“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
älterem is uncommon German at frequency #88,585 among 75 “Ä” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈɛltəʁəm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for älterem, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is älterem, spelled Ä-L-T-E-R-E-M.
Definition
- 1Dativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Komparativs des Adjektivs alt
- 2Dativ Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Komparativs des Adjektivs alt
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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