explosives
[ɛksploˈziːvəs]
The verdict
“explosives” is uncommon German (frequency #99,756 among 57,060 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,756
- frequency rank, German
- 57,060
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs explosiv
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | explosives |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɛksploˈziːvəs] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #99,756 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “explosives” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
explosives is uncommon German at frequency #99,756 among 57,060 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ɛksploˈziːvəs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for explosives, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is explosives, spelled E-X-P-L-O-S-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs explosiv
- 2Akkusativ Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs explosiv
- 3Nominativ Singular Neutrum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs explosiv
- 4Akkusativ Singular Neutrum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs explosiv
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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Using “explosives”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is E-X-P-L-O-S-I-V-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.