ASCII
[ˈaski]
The verdict
“ASCII” is uncommon German (frequency #61,290 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,290
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - genormter Code für die Darstellung von Zeichen
Corpus desk
Index DE-ascii · ASCII · German
ASCII · rank #61,290 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,290
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Arzttermin
Nearest frequency peer: Arzttermin (-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 „ASCII“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- argwöhnisch
argwöhnisch
38,714 corpus weight
- Arzttermin
Arzttermin
38,712 corpus weight
- ASCII
ASCII
38,711 corpus weight
- Ascona
Ascona
38,710 corpus weight
- assembly
assembly
38,709 corpus weight
- Attentaten
Attentaten
38,708 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „ASCII“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ASCII |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ˈaski] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „ASCII“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
ASCII is uncommon German at frequency #61,290 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anabbreviation, transcribed [ˈaski]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "genormter Code für die Darstellung von Zeichen".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ASCII, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is ASCII, spelled A-S-C-I-I.
Definition
- 1genormter Code für die Darstellung von Zeichen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ASCII appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Menge der verfügbaren Zeichen wird durch die zugrunde liegende Kodierung bestimmt, am gebräuchlichsten sind hierbei ASCII oder Unicode.
„UTF-8 ist in den ersten 128 Zeichen (Indizes 0–127) deckungsgleich mit ASCII und eignet sich mit in der Regel nur einem Byte Speicherbedarf für Zeichen vieler westlicher Sprachen besonders für die Kodierung englischsprachiger Texte, die sich im Regelfall ohne Modifikation daher sogar mit nicht-UTF-8-fähigen Texteditoren ohne Beeinträchtigung bearbeiten l…
Synonyms
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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