Rebus
[ˈʁeːbʊs]
The verdict
“Rebus” is uncommon German (frequency #85,736 among 42,116 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,736
- frequency rank, German
- 42,116
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Rätsel aus aneinandergereihten Bildchen von Gegenständen mit einzelnen (zum Teil durchgestrichenen) Buchstaben, manchmal auch Ziffern, dazwischen; daraus soll ein Wort erraten werden, das mit den d...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rebus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʁeːbʊs] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Rebus” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Rebus is uncommon German at frequency #85,736 among 42,116 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʁeːbʊs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rätsel aus aneinandergereihten Bildchen von Gegenständen mit einzelnen (zum Teil durchgestrichenen) Buchstaben, manchmal auch Ziffern, dazwischen; daraus soll ein Wort erraten werden, das mit den d...".
Zero misspellings are on record for Rebus in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Rebus, spelled R-E-B-U-S.
Definition
- 1Rätsel aus aneinandergereihten Bildchen von Gegenständen mit einzelnen (zum Teil durchgestrichenen) Buchstaben, manchmal auch Ziffern, dazwischen; daraus soll ein Wort erraten werden, das mit den dargestellten Dingen inhaltlich nichts zu tun hat
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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 “Rebus”
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- The one correct German spelling is R-E-B-U-S - 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.