dodo
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The verdict
“dodo” is uncommon German (frequency #53,614 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,614
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Dodo, die Dronte (wiss. Name: Raphus cucullatus)
Corpus desk
Index DE-dodo · dodo · German
dodo · rank #53,614 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,614
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Dienstverhält…
Nearest frequency peer: Dienstverhältnis (-2 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 „dodo“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Dickdarm
Dickdarm
46,391 corpus weight
- Dienstherrn
Dienstherrn
46,390 corpus weight
- Dienstverhä…
Dienstverhältnis
46,389 corpus weight
- dodo
dodo
46,387 corpus weight
- dotierte
dotierte
46,385 corpus weight
- drago
drago
46,384 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „dodo“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dodo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,614 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „dodo“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
dodo is uncommon German at frequency #53,614 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "der Dodo, die Dronte (wiss. Name: Raphus cucullatus)".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dodo, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is dodo, spelled D-O-D-O.
Definition
- 1der Dodo, die Dronte (wiss. Name: Raphus cucullatus)
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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