Korsar
[kɔʁˈzaːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Korsar” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Seeräuber, vor allem im westlichen Mittelmeer
Corpus desk
Index DE-korsar · Korsar · German
Korsar · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "K" 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 | Korsar |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kɔʁˈzaːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Korsar“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Korsar is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [kɔʁˈzaːɐ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Korsar, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Korsar, spelled K-O-R-S-A-R.
Definition
- 1Seeräuber, vor allem im westlichen Mittelmeer
- 2Schiff, das von den Korsaren (Seeräubern) gefahren wurde
- 3kleine Bootsklasse, Jolle
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Korsar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Korsaren haben mit Ihren Schiffen andere Schiffe überfallen und ausgeraubt.
„Doch statt für die braunen Machthaber zu werben, protzte der Korsar in eigener Sache.“
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.