Flats
[flɛt͡s]
The verdict
“Flats” is uncommon German (frequency #69,222 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,222
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Flat
Corpus desk
Index DE-flats · Flats · German
Flats · rank #69,222 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,222
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Flugkörper
Nearest frequency peer: Flugkörper (+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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Flats“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Firmament
Firmament
30,782 corpus weight
- flags
flags
30,781 corpus weight
- Flats
Flats
30,779 corpus weight
- Flugkörper
Flugkörper
30,778 corpus weight
- Flugplätze
Flugplätze
30,777 corpus weight
- Forschungsi…
Forschungsinstituts
30,776 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Flats“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Flats |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [flɛt͡s] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,222 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Flats“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Flats is uncommon German at frequency #69,222 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [flɛt͡s]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Flats has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Flats, spelled F-L-A-T-S.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Flat
- 2Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Flat
- 3Dativ Plural des Substantivs Flat
- 4Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Flat
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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