drölf
The verdict
“drölf” is an uncommon German word, ranked #88,828 in German word frequency and used as a numeral.
- #88,828
- frequency rank, German
- 5
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: die Zahl 13
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drölf |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | [dʁœlf] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,828 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “drölf” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for drölf is 5 letters long, classified as a numeral, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [dʁœlf]. Corpus data places it at rank #88,828 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for drölf in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is drölf, spelled D-R-Ö-L-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1die Zahl 13
- 2fiktive ganze Zahl
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #88,828 in German
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Using “drölf”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is D-R-Ö-L-F — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [dʁœlf] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our German index: