Recht
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#227
in German word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Recht is aGermannoun. It means: staatlich festgelegte und anerkannte Ordnung des menschlichen Zusammenlebens, deren Einhaltung durch staatlich organisierten Zwang garantiert wird Pronounced [ʁɛçt]. It ranks #227 in German word frequency. Often confused with Reh and Rest.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Recht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʁɛçt] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Recht is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʁɛçt]. Corpus data places it at rank #227 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for Recht, with forms such as "ercht", "rceht", and "reccht". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Reh", "Rest", "regt", 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 Recht, spelled R-E-C-H-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1staatlich festgelegte und anerkannte Ordnung des menschlichen Zusammenlebens, deren Einhaltung durch staatlich organisierten Zwang garantiert wird
- 2Befugnis einer Person, etwas zu tun, zu unterlassen oder zu verlangen, die sich aus dem Recht im objektiven Sinn ableiten lässt
- 3Anspruch, der nach dem Rechtsempfinden der Menschen und der Rechtsordnung gerecht und richtig ist
- 4Wissenschaft vom Recht; Jura, Rechtswissenschaft
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ercht,rceht,reccht,rechht,rechtt,recth,rehct,rrecht
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Recht
Misspelling Variants of "Recht"
Frequency rank: #227 in German
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Nearby German words
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