protect
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The verdict
“protect” is uncommon German (frequency #54,815 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,815
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - schützen, beschützen, bewahren, abschirmen
Corpus desk
Index DE-protect · protect · German
protect · rank #54,815 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,815
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH propagierten
Nearest frequency peer: propagierten (-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 „protect“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- programmati…
programmatische
45,189 corpus weight
- propagierten
propagierten
45,187 corpus weight
- protect
protect
45,186 corpus weight
- proud
proud
45,185 corpus weight
- Provenienz
Provenienz
45,184 corpus weight
- Psychosomat…
Psychosomatik
45,182 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „protect“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | protect |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „protect“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
protect is uncommon German at frequency #54,815 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "schützen, beschützen, bewahren, abschirmen".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for protect, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is protect, spelled P-R-O-T-E-C-T.
Definition
- 1schützen, beschützen, bewahren, abschirmen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how protect appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"The above is the shape of an apparatus to cover or protect the male organ,—it is made of some substance that is not elastic, as, if it were elastic, they could press it on the male organ so as to masturbate it, or cause pleasurable and licentious sensations."
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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