graduate
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The verdict
“graduate” is uncommon German (frequency #68,297 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,297
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Absolvent, Absolventin
Corpus desk
Index DE-graduate · graduate · German
graduate · rank #68,297 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,297
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH gottverdammt
Nearest frequency peer: gottverdammt (-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 „graduate“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Globetrotter
Globetrotter
31,709 corpus weight
- Glossen
Glossen
31,708 corpus weight
- gottverdammt
gottverdammt
31,705 corpus weight
- graduate
graduate
31,704 corpus weight
- grain
grain
31,703 corpus weight
- Grillplatz
Grillplatz
31,699 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „graduate“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | graduate |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „graduate“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
graduate is uncommon German at frequency #68,297 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for graduate in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is graduate, spelled G-R-A-D-U-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Absolvent, Absolventin
- 2Hochschulabsolvent, Hochschulabsolventin
- 3Universitätsabsolvent, Universitätsabsolventin
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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