merchant
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The verdict
“merchant” is uncommon German (frequency #68,464 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,464
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die Waren kauft und verkauft; Händler
Corpus desk
Index DE-merchant · merchant · German
merchant · rank #68,464 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,464
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Melilla
Nearest frequency peer: Melilla (-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 „merchant“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- medal
medal
31,544 corpus weight
- medienwirks…
medienwirksam
31,543 corpus weight
- mehrmaligem
mehrmaligem
31,541 corpus weight
- Meisen
Meisen
31,539 corpus weight
- Melilla
Melilla
31,538 corpus weight
- merchant
merchant
31,537 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „merchant“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | merchant |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „merchant“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
merchant is uncommon German at frequency #68,464 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Person, die Waren kauft und verkauft; Händler".
No misspelling variants are generated for merchant in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is merchant, spelled M-E-R-C-H-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Person, die Waren kauft und verkauft; Händler
Synonyms
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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