Cranberry
[ˈkʁɛnˌbɛʁi]
The verdict
“Cranberry” is uncommon German (frequency #83,819 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,819
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Beerenstrauch, der der Preiselbeere ähnelt und in Nordamerika heimisch ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-cranberry · Cranberry · German
Cranberry · rank #83,819 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,819
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH coyote
Nearest frequency peer: coyote (-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 „Cranberry“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- corolla
corolla
16,186 corpus weight
- coyote
coyote
16,183 corpus weight
- Cranberry
Cranberry
16,182 corpus weight
- Croatia
Croatia
16,180 corpus weight
- crocodile
crocodile
16,179 corpus weight
- cub
cub
16,178 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Cranberry“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cranberry |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkʁɛnˌbɛʁi] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Cranberry“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Cranberry is uncommon German at frequency #83,819 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkʁɛnˌbɛʁi]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Cranberry, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Cranberry, spelled C-R-A-N-B-E-R-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Beerenstrauch, der der Preiselbeere ähnelt und in Nordamerika heimisch ist
- 2essbare Frucht von [1]
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cranberry appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In Nordamerika werden Cranberrys angebaut.
Zum Frühstück isst sie immer Müsli mit getrockneten Cranberrys.
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).