crocodile
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The verdict
“crocodile” is uncommon German (frequency #83,822 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,822
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Krokodil
Corpus desk
Index DE-crocodile · crocodile · German
crocodile · rank #83,822 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,822
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Croatia
Nearest frequency peer: Croatia (-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 „crocodile“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Cranberry
Cranberry
16,182 corpus weight
- Croatia
Croatia
16,180 corpus weight
- crocodile
crocodile
16,179 corpus weight
- cub
cub
16,178 corpus weight
- curved
curved
16,177 corpus weight
- Cyprian
Cyprian
16,176 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „crocodile“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crocodile |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,822 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „crocodile“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
crocodile is uncommon German at frequency #83,822 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Krokodil".
Zero misspellings are on record for crocodile in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is crocodile, spelled C-R-O-C-O-D-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Krokodil
Synonyms
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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