drehbare

[ˈdʁeːbaːʁə]

/[ˈdʁeːbaːʁə]/ adj

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The verdict

“drehbare” is uncommon German (frequency #81,446 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#81,446
frequency rank, German
2,764
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs drehbar

Corpus desk

Index DE-drehbare · drehbare · German

drehbare · rank #81,446 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #81,446
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,764
  • PHOTO-FINISH Dreierpack

Nearest frequency peer: Dreierpack (+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 „drehbare“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „drehbare“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for drehbare
PropertyValue
Headworddrehbare
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[ˈdʁeːbaːʁə]
Letters8
Frequency rank#81,446
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „drehbare“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.drehbarefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Dreierpack“ (#81,447), „dramatisiert“ (#81,444), „Dreijahresvertrag“ (#81,448). Unter 2,764 „D“-Lemmata liegt „drehbare“ bei #81,446. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

drehbare is uncommon German at frequency #81,446 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈdʁeːbaːʁə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 9 senses are on record.

drehbare doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is drehbare, spelled D-R-E-H-B-A-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs drehbar
  2. 2
    Akkusativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs drehbar
  3. 3
    Nominativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs drehbar
  4. 4
    Akkusativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs drehbar
  5. 5
    Nominativ Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs drehbar
  6. 6
    Akkusativ Singular Femininum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs drehbar
  7. 7
    Akkusativ Singular Neutrum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs drehbar
  8. 8
    Nominativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs drehbar
  9. 9
    Akkusativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs drehbar

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "drehbare"?
"drehbare" is spelled D-R-E-H-B-A-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈdʁeːbaːʁə].
What does "drehbare" mean?
As an adjective, "drehbare" means: Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs drehbar
How do you pronounce "drehbare"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "drehbare" is [ˈdʁeːbaːʁə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "drehbare" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "drehbare", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list