consul
The verdict
“consul” is uncommon German (frequency #90,112 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,112
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - höchster Magistrat in Rom; der Konsul
Corpus desk
Index DE-consul · consul · German
consul · rank #90,112 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,112
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Contenance
Nearest frequency peer: Contenance (+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 „consul“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- conclusion
conclusion
9,895 corpus weight
- considered
considered
9,891 corpus weight
- consul
consul
9,889 corpus weight
- Contenance
Contenance
9,888 corpus weight
- Contergan
Contergan
9,887 corpus weight
- cremige
cremige
9,885 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „consul“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | consul |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „consul“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
consul is uncommon German at frequency #90,112 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for consul in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is consul, spelled C-O-N-S-U-L.
Definition
- 1höchster Magistrat in Rom; der Konsul
- 2Jahresangabe, in der jemand Konsul war; Konsulatsjahr
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how consul appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Manius Valerius / consul partem exerciti in expeditionem / ducit“ (Naev. poet. 3)
„is M. Messala M. Pisone consulibus regni cupiditate inductus coniurationem nobilitatis fecit et civitati persuasit, ut de finibus suis cum omnibus copiis exirent:“ (Caes. Gall. 1,2,1)
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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