rationaler Zahl
The verdict
“rationaler Zahl” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Genitiv Singular der starken Deklination des Substantivs rationale Zahl
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rationaler Zahl |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʁat͡si̯oˈnaːlɐ ˈt͡saːl] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rationaler Zahl” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for rationaler Zahl is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʁat͡si̯oˈnaːlɐ ˈt͡saːl]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for rationaler Zahl 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 rationaler Zahl, spelled R-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-E-R- -Z-A-H-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular der starken Deklination des Substantivs rationale Zahl
- 2Dativ Singular der starken Deklination des Substantivs rationale Zahl
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is R-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-E-R- -Z-A-H-L — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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