database
[ˈdeɪtəbeɪs]
The verdict
“database” is uncommon German (frequency #50,387 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,387
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - großer und strukturierter Bestand schnell auffindbarer einzelner Daten auf einem Computer
Corpus desk
Index DE-database · database · German
database · rank #50,387 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,387
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH dannen
Nearest frequency peer: dannen (-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 „database“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Dampfmaschi…
Dampfmaschinen
49,617 corpus weight
- Dankes
Dankes
49,616 corpus weight
- dannen
dannen
49,615 corpus weight
- database
database
49,614 corpus weight
- Dienstgrad
Dienstgrad
49,612 corpus weight
- Diskette
Diskette
49,611 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „database“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | database |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈdeɪtəbeɪs] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „database“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
database is uncommon German at frequency #50,387 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈdeɪtəbeɪs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "großer und strukturierter Bestand schnell auffindbarer einzelner Daten auf einem Computer".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for database, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is database, spelled D-A-T-A-B-A-S-E.
Definition
- 1großer und strukturierter Bestand schnell auffindbarer einzelner Daten auf einem Computer
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how database appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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