rapp
[ʁɛp]
The verdict
“rapp” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,743) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,743
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs rappen
Corpus desk
Index DE-rapp · rapp · German
rapp · rank #31,743 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,743
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH quartiere
Nearest frequency peer: quartiere (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „rapp“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- PSV
PSV
68,262 corpus weight
- Putze
Putze
68,261 corpus weight
- pädophilen
pädophilen
68,260 corpus weight
- quartiere
quartiere
68,259 corpus weight
- rapp
rapp
68,258 corpus weight
- rasante
rasante
68,257 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „rapp“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | rapp |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʁɛp] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #31,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „rapp“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rapp is neighbouring look-alikes ("Rat", "ray", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ʁɛp]. Frequency #31,743 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs rappen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for rapp, with forms such as "arpp", "rpap", and "rrapp". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Rat", "ray", "rau", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 rapp, spelled R-A-P-P.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs rappen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arpp
- rpap
- rrapp
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rapp - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).