racist

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/[…]/ adj

The verdict

“racist” is uncommon German (frequency #94,765 among 2,984 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#94,765
frequency rank, German
2,984
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - rassistisch

Corpus desk

Index DE-racist · racist · German

racist · rank #94,765 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #94,765
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,984
  • PHOTO-FINISH Rankweil

Nearest frequency peer: Rankweil (+3 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 „racist“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „racist“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for racist
PropertyValue
Headwordracist
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[…]
Letters6
Frequency rank#94,765
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „racist“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.racistfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Rankweil“ (#94,768), „ratifizieren“ (#94,771), „Realitätsverweigerung“ (#94,773). Unter 2,984 „R“-Lemmata liegt „racist“ bei #94,765. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

racist is uncommon German at frequency #94,765 among 2,984 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "rassistisch".

Zero misspellings are on record for racist in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 racist, spelled R-A-C-I-S-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    rassistisch

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "racist"?
"racist" is spelled R-A-C-I-S-T. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "racist" mean?
As an adjective, "racist" means: rassistisch
How do you pronounce "racist"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "racist" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "racist", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list