Raubbau
[ˈʁaʊ̯pˌbaʊ̯]
The verdict
“Raubbau” is uncommon German (frequency #63,682 among 42,116 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,682
- frequency rank, German
- 42,116
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nutzung natürlicher Ressourcen (beispielsweise Böden, Wasser, Luft, Wald) in einem so starken Ausmaß, dass diese Ressourcen schnell erschöpfen (Bergbau) beziehungsweise unwiderruflich geschädigt we...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Raubbau |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʁaʊ̯pˌbaʊ̯] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Raubbau” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Raubbau is uncommon German at frequency #63,682 among 42,116 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʁaʊ̯pˌbaʊ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nutzung natürlicher Ressourcen (beispielsweise Böden, Wasser, Luft, Wald) in einem so starken Ausmaß, dass diese Ressourcen schnell erschöpfen (Bergbau) beziehungsweise unwiderruflich geschädigt we...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Raubbau, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Raubbau, spelled R-A-U-B-B-A-U.
Definition
- 1Nutzung natürlicher Ressourcen (beispielsweise Böden, Wasser, Luft, Wald) in einem so starken Ausmaß, dass diese Ressourcen schnell erschöpfen (Bergbau) beziehungsweise unwiderruflich geschädigt werden (Böden, Wasser, Luft, Wald)
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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 “Raubbau”
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- The one correct German spelling is R-A-U-B-B-A-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.