Motherboard
[ˈmʌðəbɔːd]
The verdict
“Motherboard” is uncommon German (frequency #59,017 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,017
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - technische Informatik: die zentrale Platine auf einem Computer, auf der alle wesentlichen elektronischen Baugruppen angeordnet sind
Corpus desk
Index DE-motherboard · Motherboard · German
Motherboard · rank #59,017 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,017
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Montevideo
Nearest frequency peer: Montevideo (-2 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 „Motherboard“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Monogramm
Monogramm
40,988 corpus weight
- Monterey
Monterey
40,987 corpus weight
- Montevideo
Montevideo
40,986 corpus weight
- Motherboard
Motherboard
40,984 corpus weight
- Mundschutz
Mundschutz
40,982 corpus weight
- Mundwerk
Mundwerk
40,981 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Motherboard“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Motherboard |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmʌðəbɔːd] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #59,017 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Motherboard“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Motherboard is uncommon German at frequency #59,017 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈmʌðəbɔːd]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "technische Informatik: die zentrale Platine auf einem Computer, auf der alle wesentlichen elektronischen Baugruppen angeordnet sind".
Motherboard doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Motherboard, spelled M-O-T-H-E-R-B-O-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1technische Informatik: die zentrale Platine auf einem Computer, auf der alle wesentlichen elektronischen Baugruppen angeordnet sind
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Motherboard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Viele Steckplätze am Motherboard sind für Erweiterungen noch frei.
Synonyms
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); 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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