dera
[ˈdɛ.ɾə]
The verdict
“dera” is uncommon German (frequency #96,835 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,835
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Plusquamperfekt Indikativ des Verbs dar
Corpus desk
Index DE-dera · dera · German
dera · rank #96,835 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,835
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Desorientieru…
Nearest frequency peer: Desorientierung (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “dera”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- dehydriert
dehydriert
3,170 corpus weight
- Demagogie
Demagogie
3,169 corpus weight
- demographis…
demographischer
3,168 corpus weight
- dera
dera
3,166 corpus weight
- Desorientie…
Desorientierung
3,165 corpus weight
- Dienerinnen
Dienerinnen
3,161 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “dera” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dera |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈdɛ.ɾə] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #96,835 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dera” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
dera is uncommon German at frequency #96,835 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈdɛ.ɾə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for dera in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is dera, spelled D-E-R-A.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Plusquamperfekt Indikativ des Verbs dar
- 23. Person Singular Plusquamperfekt Indikativ des Verbs dar
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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