rap
[ʁap]
The verdict
“rap” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,520) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,520
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rap, Rapmusik
Corpus desk
Index DE-rap · rap · German
rap · rank #7,520 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,520
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Rahmenbedingu…
Nearest frequency peer: Rahmenbedingungen (-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 “rap”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- pink
pink
92,484 corpus weight
- Quartal
Quartal
92,483 corpus weight
- Rahmenbedin…
Rahmenbedingungen
92,482 corpus weight
- rap
rap
92,481 corpus weight
- reale
reale
92,480 corpus weight
- Richtlinie
Richtlinie
92,479 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “rap” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rap |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʁap] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,520 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “rap” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rap is neighbouring look-alikes ("re", "Rb", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ʁap]. Frequency #7,520 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Rap, Rapmusik".
rap doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "re", "Rb", "Rn", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 rap, spelled R-A-P.
Definition
- 1Rap, Rapmusik
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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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.