requisite

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The verdict

“requisite” is uncommon German (frequency #88,204 among 2,984 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#88,204
frequency rank, German
2,984
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Anforderung, Erfordernis, Voraussetzung

Corpus desk

Index DE-requisite · requisite · German

requisite · rank #88,204 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #88,204
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,984
  • PHOTO-FINISH repräsentiere

Nearest frequency peer: repräsentiere (-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 „requisite“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „requisite“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for requisite
PropertyValue
Headwordrequisite
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters9
Frequency rank#88,204
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „requisite“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.requisitefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „repräsentiere“ (#88,203), „Rennleitung“ (#88,202), „Restbetrag“ (#88,206). Unter 2,984 „R“-Lemmata liegt „requisite“ bei #88,204. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

requisite is uncommon German at frequency #88,204 among 2,984 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for requisite, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is requisite, spelled R-E-Q-U-I-S-I-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Anforderung, Erfordernis, Voraussetzung
  2. 2
    (das) Muss
  3. 3
    Requisit

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how requisite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The Requisites for the Celebration of Mass: bread and wine.

Synonyms

conditiondesideratumessentialnecessarynecessityneedpreconditionprerequisiterequirementmust

This word in other languages

nécessaire(Français)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "requisite"?
"requisite" is spelled R-E-Q-U-I-S-I-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "requisite" mean?
As a noun, "requisite" means: Anforderung, Erfordernis, Voraussetzung
How do you pronounce "requisite"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "requisite" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "requisite", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

reizender#88,200Schaumann#88,241Prophetie#88,158schnellst#88,256

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list