Reiff
[ʁaɪ̯f]
The verdict
“Reiff” is uncommon German (frequency #85,749 among 2,984 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,749
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - deutschsprachiger Nachname, Familienname
Corpus desk
Index DE-reiff · Reiff · German
Reiff · rank #85,749 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,749
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH reichlichen
Nearest frequency peer: reichlichen (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Reiff”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Regungen
Regungen
14,254 corpus weight
- reichlichen
reichlichen
14,253 corpus weight
- Reiff
Reiff
14,252 corpus weight
- Reinfeld
Reinfeld
14,251 corpus weight
- Reisetagebu…
Reisetagebuch
14,250 corpus weight
- Reizbarkeit
Reizbarkeit
14,249 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Reiff” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Reiff |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ʁaɪ̯f] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Reiff” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
Reiff is uncommon German at frequency #85,749 among 2,984 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ʁaɪ̯f]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "deutschsprachiger Nachname, Familienname".
Reiff doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Reiff, spelled R-E-I-F-F.
Definition
- 1deutschsprachiger Nachname, Familienname
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Reiff appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Frau Reiff ist ein Genie im Verkauf.
Herr Reiff wollte uns kein Interview geben.
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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