elfter
[ˈɛlftɐ]
The verdict
“elfter” is uncommon German (frequency #52,797 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as an unknown. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,797
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unbestimmte männliche Deklination von elfte
Corpus desk
Index DE-elfter · elfter · German
elfter · rank #52,797 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,797
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH eklatant
Nearest frequency peer: eklatant (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “elfter”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Einsatzleit…
Einsatzleitung
47,207 corpus weight
- ekelhafter
ekelhafter
47,206 corpus weight
- eklatant
eklatant
47,205 corpus weight
- elfter
elfter
47,204 corpus weight
- Elysium
Elysium
47,202 corpus weight
- Embryonen
Embryonen
47,201 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “elfter” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | elfter |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Unknown |
| IPA | [ˈɛlftɐ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,797 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “elfter” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
elfter is uncommon German at frequency #52,797 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as anunknown, transcribed [ˈɛlftɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "unbestimmte männliche Deklination von elfte".
No misspelling variants are generated for elfter in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is elfter, spelled E-L-F-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1unbestimmte männliche Deklination von elfte
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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