rate zu
The verdict
“rate zu” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs zuraten
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rate zu |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˌʁaːtə ˈt͡suː] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rate zu” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for rate zu is 7 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌʁaːtə ˈt͡suː]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for rate zu in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 rate zu, spelled R-A-T-E- -Z-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs zuraten
- 21. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs zuraten
- 31. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs zuraten
- 43. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs zuraten
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Using “rate zu”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is R-A-T-E- -Z-U — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˌʁaːtə ˈt͡suː] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our German index: