Dotter
[ˈdɔtɐ]
The verdict
“Dotter” is uncommon German (frequency #83,861 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,861
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Eigelb, das hauptsächlich die Nährstoffe für den zu bildenden Organismus enthält
Corpus desk
Index DE-dotter · Dotter · German
Dotter · rank #83,861 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,861
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Doppelhaus
Nearest frequency peer: Doppelhaus (-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 „Dotter“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Doppeldeuti…
Doppeldeutigkeit
16,142 corpus weight
- Doppelhaus
Doppelhaus
16,141 corpus weight
- Dotter
Dotter
16,140 corpus weight
- Douglasie
Douglasie
16,139 corpus weight
- drangsalier…
drangsalieren
16,137 corpus weight
- Drehbuchs
Drehbuchs
16,136 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Dotter“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dotter |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈdɔtɐ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,861 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Dotter“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Dotter is uncommon German at frequency #83,861 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈdɔtɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "das Eigelb, das hauptsächlich die Nährstoffe für den zu bildenden Organismus enthält".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Dotter, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Dotter, spelled D-O-T-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1das Eigelb, das hauptsächlich die Nährstoffe für den zu bildenden Organismus enthält
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dotter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Das übergebliebene Dotter und Eiweiß, was nicht zu seiner Bildung verwendet wurde, dient zu seiner Nahrung, bis es sich selbst helfen kann.“
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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