rätselhafter
[ˈʁɛːt͡sl̩haftɐ]
The verdict
“rätselhafter” is uncommon German (frequency #70,743 among 42,116 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,743
- frequency rank, German
- 42,116
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs rätselhaft
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rätselhafter |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʁɛːt͡sl̩haftɐ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #70,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rätselhafter” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
rätselhafter is uncommon German at frequency #70,743 among 42,116 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʁɛːt͡sl̩haftɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
rätselhafter doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is rätselhafter, spelled R-Ä-T-S-E-L-H-A-F-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs rätselhaft
- 2Genitiv Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs rätselhaft
- 3Dativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs rätselhaft
- 4Genitiv Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs rätselhaft
- 5Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs rätselhaft
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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Using “rätselhafter”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is R-Ä-T-S-E-L-H-A-F-T-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈʁɛːt͡sl̩haftɐ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.