Erdrutsch
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#57,817
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Erdrutsch is aGermannoun. It means: (abruptes) Abgleiten, Herabrutschen von zumeist größeren Erd- und Gesteinsmassen in abfälligem Gelände Pronounced [ˈeːɐ̯tˌʁʊt͡ʃ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Erdrutsch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈeːɐ̯tˌʁʊt͡ʃ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Erdrutsch is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈeːɐ̯tˌʁʊt͡ʃ]. Corpus data places it at rank #57,817 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Erdrutsch in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Erdrutsch, spelled E-R-D-R-U-T-S-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(abruptes) Abgleiten, Herabrutschen von zumeist größeren Erd- und Gesteinsmassen in abfälligem Gelände
- 2bei einer Wahl sich ergebende unvorhergesehene, einschneidende Verschiebung von Wählerstimmen von einer Partei zu einer Gegenpartei, was sich zumeist in drastischen Stimmenverlusten bei ersterer und in einem hohen Wahlsieg bei letzterer äußert
- 3unvorhergesehene Veränderung der (augenblicklichen) Umstände, Verhältnisse, des Status quo in einem bestimmten Zusammenhang, vor allem in der Politik
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #57,817 in German
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