Ratz
[ʁat͡s]
The verdict
“Ratz” is uncommon German (frequency #63,681 among 2,984 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,681
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ratte
Corpus desk
Index DE-ratz · Ratz · German
Ratz · rank #63,681 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,681
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Raubbau
Nearest frequency peer: Raubbau (+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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Ratz“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- rasa
rasa
36,323 corpus weight
- Rasenfläche
Rasenfläche
36,322 corpus weight
- Ratz
Ratz
36,320 corpus weight
- Raubbau
Raubbau
36,319 corpus weight
- recherchier…
recherchierten
36,318 corpus weight
- Rechtssprec…
Rechtssprechung
36,317 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Ratz“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ratz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʁat͡s] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #63,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Ratz“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Ratz is uncommon German at frequency #63,681 among 2,984 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ʁat͡s]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Ratz, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Ratz, spelled R-A-T-Z.
Definition
- 1Ratte
- 2Iltis
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ratz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sie ist zwar vor Schreck fast in Ohnmacht gefallen, hat aber dennoch geschrien: „ein Ratz! ein Ratz!“
Der Iltis versteckt sich tagsüber in Holzstapeln oder unter Steinhaufen und schläft wie ein Ratz. „Ratz“ nennt auch der Jäger den Iltis.
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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