reell
[ʁeˈɛl]
The verdict
“reell” is an uncommon German word, ranked #84,458 in German word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #84,458
- frequency rank, German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - auf angemessene Weise, in angemessenem Umfang
| 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) |
Where “reell” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for reell is 5 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʁeˈɛl]. Corpus data places it at rank #84,458 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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
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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Using “reell”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is R-E-E-L-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ʁeˈɛl] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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.