radix

noun

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The verdict

“radix” is uncommon German (frequency #82,020 among 2,984 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#82,020
frequency rank, German
2,984
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wurzel einer Pflanze

Corpus desk

Index DE-radix · radix · German

radix · rank #82,020 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #82,020
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,984
  • PHOTO-FINISH radikalisiert…

Nearest frequency peer: radikalisierten (-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.

Frequency neighbourhood for “radix”

Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)

corpus weight

What this shows Bars show where “radix” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for radix
PropertyValue
Headwordradix
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#82,020
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Wo “radix” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.radixliegt hier:

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

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. In derselben Seltenheitsbandbreite liegen „radikalisierten“ (#82,019), „Radlader“ (#82,021), „Rahmenhandlung“ (#82,022). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

radix is uncommon German at frequency #82,020 among 2,984 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 9 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for radix, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is radix, spelled R-A-D-I-X.

Definition

  1. 1
    Wurzel einer Pflanze
  2. 2
    der Rettich, Radieschen
  3. 3
    der unterste Teil von etwas (zum Beispiel vom Zahn, den Haaren, Felsen et cetera)
  4. 4
    die Wurzel, der Grund, die Basis
  5. 5
    der Ursprung
  6. 6
    Wurzel/Stamm eines Wortes
  7. 7
    Wurzel (einer Zahl, beim Radizieren)
  8. 8
    funktionelle Gruppe
  9. 9
    Wurzel

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how radix appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „si poteris, sub radice montis siet, in meridiem spectet, loco salubri; operariorum copia siet, bonumque aquarium, oppidum validum prope siet; si aut mare aut amnis, qua naves ambulant, aut via bona celebrisque.“ (Cato agr. 1, 3)
  2. Doctrina est fructus dulcis radicis amarae. (Cato)

This word in other languages

root(English)

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 "radix"?
"radix" is spelled R-A-D-I-X.
What does "radix" mean?
As a noun, "radix" means: Wurzel einer Pflanze
What language does "radix" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list