bobcat
[ˈbɒbˌkæt]
The verdict
“bobcat” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Rotluchs; eine Luchsart, deren Verbreitungsgebiet vom südlichen Kanada bis zum Norden Mexikos reicht
Corpus desk
Index DE-bobcat · bobcat · German
bobcat · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bobcat |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbɒbˌkæt] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „bobcat“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
bobcat is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈbɒbˌkæt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "der Rotluchs; eine Luchsart, deren Verbreitungsgebiet vom südlichen Kanada bis zum Norden Mexikos reicht".
No misspelling variants are generated for bobcat in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 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 bobcat, spelled B-O-B-C-A-T.
Definition
- 1der Rotluchs; eine Luchsart, deren Verbreitungsgebiet vom südlichen Kanada bis zum Norden Mexikos reicht
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bobcat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"With a gray to brown coat, whiskered face, and black-tufted ears, the bobcat resembles the other species of the mid-sized Lynx genus."
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.