-erei
[əˈʁaɪ̯]
The verdict
“-erei” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a suffix. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - oft abwertend, nachgestelltes Wortbildungselement, das – angehängt an ein Verb oder Substantiv – das Wort zur Tätigkeit macht
Corpus desk
Index DE-erei · -erei · German
-erei · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "-" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | -erei |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Suffix |
| IPA | [əˈʁaɪ̯] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “-erei” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
-erei is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as asuffix, transcribed [əˈʁaɪ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for -erei in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is -erei, spelled --E-R-E-I.
Definition
- 1oft abwertend, nachgestelltes Wortbildungselement, das – angehängt an ein Verb oder Substantiv – das Wort zur Tätigkeit macht
- 2nachgestelltes Wortbildungselement, das – angehängt an ein Verb oder Substantiv – das neue Wort zur Wirkungsstätte macht
This word in other languages
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.