measure
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The verdict
“measure” is uncommon German (frequency #88,016 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,016
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Maßeinheit
Corpus desk
Index DE-measure · measure · German
measure · rank #88,016 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,016
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH MCC
Nearest frequency peer: MCC (-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 „measure“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- maurischen
maurischen
11,989 corpus weight
- MCC
MCC
11,986 corpus weight
- measure
measure
11,985 corpus weight
- meditativen
meditativen
11,984 corpus weight
- Mehrheitswa…
Mehrheitswahlrecht
11,982 corpus weight
- mehrten
mehrten
11,981 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „measure“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | measure |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,016 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „measure“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
measure is uncommon German at frequency #88,016 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Maßeinheit".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for measure, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 measure, spelled M-E-A-S-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1eine Maßeinheit
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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