reibe
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#45,543
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
reibe is aGermanverb. It means: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs reiben Pronounced [ˈʁaɪ̯bə]. Often confused with rein and Reis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reibe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʁaɪ̯bə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #45,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for reibe is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʁaɪ̯bə]. Corpus data places it at rank #45,543 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for reibe, with forms such as "eribe", "rebie", and "reibbe". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rein", "Reis", "Reif", 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 reibe, spelled R-E-I-B-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs reiben
- 21. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs reiben
- 33. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs reiben
- 42. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs reiben
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eribe,rebie,reibbe,reieb,riebe,rreibe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for reibe
Misspelling Variants of "reibe"
Frequency rank: #45,543 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our German index: