reell
[ʁeˈɛl]
The verdict
“reell” is uncommon German (frequency #84,458 among 2,984 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,458
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - auf angemessene Weise, in angemessenem Umfang
Corpus desk
Index DE-reell · reell · German
reell · rank #84,458 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,458
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Reformatoren
Nearest frequency peer: Reformatoren (+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 „reell“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Redakteurs
Redakteurs
15,546 corpus weight
- redundante
redundante
15,545 corpus weight
- reell
reell
15,543 corpus weight
- Reformatoren
Reformatoren
15,542 corpus weight
- Regatten
Regatten
15,540 corpus weight
- Regenwolken
Regenwolken
15,539 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „reell“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reell |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ʁeˈɛl] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „reell“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
reell is uncommon German at frequency #84,458 among 2,984 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ʁeˈɛl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for reell, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is reell, spelled R-E-E-L-L.
Definition
- 1auf angemessene Weise, in angemessenem Umfang
- 2auf die Wirklichkeit bezogen
- 3Mathematik, in Wendungen wie reelle Zahl: Zahl, die auf der Zahlengerade darstellbar ist; Zahl aus dem kleinsten Erweiterungskörper der rationalen Zahlen, in dem alle Cauchyfolgen konvergieren
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how reell appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er ist ein ganz reeller Partner.
Ihr habt eine reelle Chance.
This word in other languages
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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