raffiniertes
[ʁafiˈniːɐ̯təs]
The verdict
“raffiniertes” is uncommon German (frequency #98,955 among 42,116 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,955
- frequency rank, German
- 42,116
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs raffiniert
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raffiniertes |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ʁafiˈniːɐ̯təs] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #98,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “raffiniertes” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
raffiniertes is uncommon German at frequency #98,955 among 42,116 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ʁafiˈniːɐ̯təs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
raffiniertes has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is raffiniertes, spelled R-A-F-F-I-N-I-E-R-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs raffiniert
- 2Akkusativ Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs raffiniert
- 3Nominativ Singular Neutrum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs raffiniert
- 4Akkusativ Singular Neutrum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs raffiniert
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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Using “raffiniertes”
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- The one correct German spelling is R-A-F-F-I-N-I-E-R-T-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.