relatives
[ʁelaˈtiːvəs]
The verdict
“relatives” is uncommon German (frequency #90,805 among 42,116 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,805
- frequency rank, German
- 42,116
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs relativ
Corpus desk
Index DE-relatives · relatives · German
relatives · rank #90,805 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,805
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 42,116
- PHOTO-FINISH rekrutierten
Nearest frequency peer: rekrutierten (-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 “relatives”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- reinzuziehen
reinzuziehen
9,199 corpus weight
- Reiselust
Reiselust
9,198 corpus weight
- rekrutierten
rekrutierten
9,197 corpus weight
- relatives
relatives
9,196 corpus weight
- render
render
9,195 corpus weight
- resistenter
resistenter
9,194 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “relatives” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | relatives |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ʁelaˈtiːvəs] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “relatives” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
relatives is uncommon German at frequency #90,805 among 42,116 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ʁelaˈtiːvəs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for relatives, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is relatives, spelled R-E-L-A-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs relativ
- 2Akkusativ Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs relativ
- 3Nominativ Singular Neutrum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs relativ
- 4Akkusativ Singular Neutrum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs relativ
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.