devotee
[ˌdɛvə(ʊ)ˈtiː]
The verdict
“devotee” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Verehrer, der Anhänger, Liebhaber, Verfechter
Corpus desk
Index DE-devotee · devotee · German
devotee · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | devotee |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌdɛvə(ʊ)ˈtiː] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „devotee“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
devotee is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˌdɛvə(ʊ)ˈtiː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "der Verehrer, der Anhänger, Liebhaber, Verfechter".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for devotee, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 devotee, spelled D-E-V-O-T-E-E.
Definition
- 1der Verehrer, der Anhänger, Liebhaber, Verfechter
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.