rasch

/[ʁaʃ]/ adj

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,916

in German word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

rasch is anGermanadj. It means: in einem zügigen Tempo, oftmals auch mit einem schnellen Beginn und ohne viel Aufwand zu treiben oder groß nachzudenken, eventuell auch unerwartet und plötzlich Pronounced [ʁaʃ]. It ranks #3,916 in German word frequency. Often confused with Rast and rich.

Key facts for rasch
PropertyValue
Headwordrasch
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdj
IPA[ʁaʃ]
Letters5
Frequency rank#3,916
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of rasch in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for rasch is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʁaʃ]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,916 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "in einem zügigen Tempo, oftmals auch mit einem schnellen Beginn und ohne viel Aufwand zu treiben oder groß nachzudenken, eventuell auch unerwartet und plötzlich".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for rasch, with forms such as "racsh", "rascch", and "raschh". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Rast", "rich", "roch", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is rasch, spelled R-A-S-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    in einem zügigen Tempo, oftmals auch mit einem schnellen Beginn und ohne viel Aufwand zu treiben oder groß nachzudenken, eventuell auch unerwartet und plötzlich

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: racsh,rascch,raschh,rashc,rassch,rrasch,rsach

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rasch

Misspelling Variants of "rasch"

racsh5rascch6raschh6rashc5rassch6rrasch6rsach5
Misspelling Variants of "rasch"

Frequency rank: #3,916 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rasch"?
"rasch" is spelled R-A-S-C-H. The IPA pronunciation is [ʁaʃ].
What does "rasch" mean?
As an adj, "rasch" means: in einem zügigen Tempo, oftmals auch mit einem schnellen Beginn und ohne viel Aufwand zu treiben oder groß nachzudenken, eventuell auch unerwartet und plötzlich
What words are commonly confused with "rasch"?
"rasch" is commonly confused with "Rast", "rich", "roch". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rasch"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rasch" is [ʁaʃ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rasch" come from?
"rasch" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.