re
Letters
2 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,150
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
re is aGermanparticle. It means: beim Solmisieren oder Solfeggieren benutzte Silbe zum Singen eines bestimmten Tons aus der Tonleiter Pronounced [ʁeː]. It ranks #4,150 in German word frequency. Often confused with Rn and Rs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | re |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Particle |
| IPA | [ʁeː] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #4,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for re is 2 letters long, classified as aparticle, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʁeː]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,150 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "beim Solmisieren oder Solfeggieren benutzte Silbe zum Singen eines bestimmten Tons aus der Tonleiter".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for re in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Rn", "Rs", "RV", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 re, spelled R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1beim Solmisieren oder Solfeggieren benutzte Silbe zum Singen eines bestimmten Tons aus der Tonleiter
Frequency rank: #4,150 in German
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