attorney

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The verdict

“attorney” is uncommon German (frequency #51,121 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,121
frequency rank, German
6,976
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Anwalt, Rechtsanwalt

Corpus desk

Index DE-attorney · attorney · German

attorney · rank #51,121 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,121
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,976
  • PHOTO-FINISH Attentats

Nearest frequency peer: Attentats (-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 „attorney“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for attorney
PropertyValue
Headwordattorney
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters8
Frequency rank#51,121
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „attorney“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.attorneyfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Attentats“ (#51,120), „aufbaute“ (#51,122), „attackierte“ (#51,119). Unter 6,976 „A“-Lemmata liegt „attorney“ bei #51,121. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

attorney is uncommon German at frequency #51,121 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for attorney in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is attorney, spelled A-T-T-O-R-N-E-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Anwalt, Rechtsanwalt
  2. 2
    Staatsanwalt

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 "attorney"?
"attorney" is spelled A-T-T-O-R-N-E-Y. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "attorney" mean?
As a noun, "attorney" means: Anwalt, Rechtsanwalt
How do you pronounce "attorney"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "attorney" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

aufbaute#51,122ausheben#51,128Bahndamm#51,137Balearen#51,138

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list