quintus
The verdict
“quintus” is uncommon German (frequency #50,815 among 216 “Q” headwords), classed as a numeral. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,815
- frequency rank, German
- 216
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Fünfte, die Fünfte, das Fünfte
Corpus desk
Index DE-quintus · quintus · German
quintus · rank #50,815 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,815
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 216
- PHOTO-FINISH Quanten
Nearest frequency peer: Quanten (-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 „quintus“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Pythagoras
Pythagoras
49,189 corpus weight
- pöbeln
pöbeln
49,188 corpus weight
- Quanten
Quanten
49,187 corpus weight
- quintus
quintus
49,186 corpus weight
- Rabatten
Rabatten
49,185 corpus weight
- Racker
Racker
49,184 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „quintus“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quintus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „quintus“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
quintus is uncommon German at frequency #50,815 among 216 “Q” headwords, classed as anumeral. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "der Fünfte, die Fünfte, das Fünfte".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for quintus, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 quintus, spelled Q-U-I-N-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1der Fünfte, die Fünfte, das Fünfte
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quintus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„praedium quod primum siet, si me rogabis, sic dicam: de omnibus agris optimoque loco iugera agri centum, vinea est prima, vel si vino multo est; secundo loco hortus irriguus; tertio salictum; quarto oletum; quinto pratum; sexto campus frumentarius; septimo silva caedua; octavo arbustum; nono glandaria silva.“ (Cato agr. 1,7)
„et factum est vespere et mane dies quintus“ (Vulg. Gen. 1,23)
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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