protocol
[ˈpɹəʊtəˌkɒl]
The verdict
“protocol” is uncommon German (frequency #57,327 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,327
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Protokoll
Corpus desk
Index DE-protocol · protocol · German
protocol · rank #57,327 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,327
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH protected
Nearest frequency peer: protected (-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 „protocol“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Projektil
Projektil
42,678 corpus weight
- protected
protected
42,675 corpus weight
- protocol
protocol
42,674 corpus weight
- provokativ
provokativ
42,673 corpus weight
- Prozeduren
Prozeduren
42,672 corpus weight
- psychoanaly…
psychoanalytische
42,669 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „protocol“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | protocol |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpɹəʊtəˌkɒl] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,327 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „protocol“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
protocol is uncommon German at frequency #57,327 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈpɹəʊtəˌkɒl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
protocol has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is protocol, spelled P-R-O-T-O-C-O-L.
Definition
- 1Protokoll
- 2Protokoll
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how protocol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Another account says that, on the morning of the 31st of May, the king delivered to the prince-royal the crown, the sceptre, and the key of his treasure and gave him his blessing. The privy-counsillor Vockerodt drew up at his desire a protocol of the transaction.“
„An exception is Jabber, which is designed based on an open protocol called the extensible messaging and presence protocol (XMPP).“
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).