Fritze
[ˈfʁɪt͡sə]
The verdict
“Fritze” is uncommon German (frequency #63,328 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,328
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - irgendein Kerl
Corpus desk
Index DE-fritze · Fritze · German
Fritze · rank #63,328 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,328
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH freizuhalten
Nearest frequency peer: freizuhalten (-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 „Fritze“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Freeware
Freeware
36,677 corpus weight
- Freibeuter
Freibeuter
36,676 corpus weight
- freizuhalten
freizuhalten
36,674 corpus weight
- Fritze
Fritze
36,673 corpus weight
- Frühwerk
Frühwerk
36,671 corpus weight
- fummeln
fummeln
36,670 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Fritze“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fritze |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfʁɪt͡sə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,328 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Fritze“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Fritze is uncommon German at frequency #63,328 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfʁɪt͡sə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "irgendein Kerl".
Zero misspellings are on record for Fritze in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. 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, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Fritze, spelled F-R-I-T-Z-E.
Definition
- 1irgendein Kerl
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Fritze appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Fritze von der Versicherung kommt nächste Woche vorbei.
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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