ARP
[aʔɛɐ̯ˈpeː]
The verdict
“ARP” is uncommon German (frequency #53,479 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,479
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Netzwerkprotokoll, das hauptsächlich zur Ermittlung der MAC-Adressen von gegebenen IP-Adressen benutzt wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-arp · ARP · German
ARP · rank #53,479 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,479
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Argumentation…
Nearest frequency peer: Argumentationen (-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 „ARP“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Arbeitsfeld
Arbeitsfeld
46,525 corpus weight
- Arbeitsstel…
Arbeitsstellen
46,524 corpus weight
- Argumentati…
Argumentationen
46,523 corpus weight
- ARP
ARP
46,522 corpus weight
- Asch
Asch
46,521 corpus weight
- Asiate
Asiate
46,520 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „ARP“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ARP |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [aʔɛɐ̯ˈpeː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #53,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „ARP“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
ARP is uncommon German at frequency #53,479 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anabbreviation, transcribed [aʔɛɐ̯ˈpeː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Netzwerkprotokoll, das hauptsächlich zur Ermittlung der MAC-Adressen von gegebenen IP-Adressen benutzt wird".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ARP, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is ARP, spelled A-R-P.
Definition
- 1Netzwerkprotokoll, das hauptsächlich zur Ermittlung der MAC-Adressen von gegebenen IP-Adressen benutzt wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ARP appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Stattdessen ermittelt er dann mit Hilfe des ARP zunächst die MAC-Adresse des Zielrechners.“
„Egal welche Namenskonvention in Ihrem Netzwerk gilt, die Zieladresse muss in eine Hardware-Adresse (MAC-Adresse) aufgelöst werden. Diese Funktionalität wird durch das ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) sichergestellt.“
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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