assessor

noun

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The verdict

“assessor” is uncommon German (frequency #60,347 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#60,347
frequency rank, German
6,976
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Beisitzer, Berater

Corpus desk

Index DE-assessor · assessor · German

assessor · rank #60,347 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #60,347
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,976
  • PHOTO-FINISH Arschgeigen

Nearest frequency peer: Arschgeigen (-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.

Frequency neighbourhood for “assessor”

Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)

corpus weight

What this shows Bars show where “assessor” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for assessor
PropertyValue
Headwordassessor
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#60,347
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Wo “assessor” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).assessorliegt hier:

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

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). In derselben Seltenheitsbandbreite liegen „Arschgeigen“ (#60,346), „assyrischen“ (#60,348), „ate“ (#60,349). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

assessor is uncommon German at frequency #60,347 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

assessor has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is assessor, spelled A-S-S-E-S-S-O-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Beisitzer, Berater
  2. 2
    ständiger juristischer Berater eines Magistraten
  3. 3
    Beisitzer

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. „et Lacedaemonii regibus suis augurem adsessorem dederunt,“ (Cic. div. 1,95)
  2. „An ille plus praestat, qui inter peregrines et cives aut urbanus praetor adeuntibus adsessoris verba pronuntiat, quam qui quid sit iustilia, quid pietas, quid patientia, quid fortitudo, quid mortis contemptus, quid deorum intellectus, quantumque adiutorium hominum sit bona conscientia?“ (Sen. Dial. 9,3,4)

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 "assessor"?
"assessor" is spelled A-S-S-E-S-S-O-R.
What does "assessor" mean?
As a noun, "assessor" means: Beisitzer, Berater
What language does "assessor" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

aufhängt#60,355anspielt#60,335Anrufung#60,334Aufwands#60,360

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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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list