riots
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The verdict
“riots” is uncommon German (frequency #89,500 among 2,984 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,500
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs riot
Corpus desk
Index DE-riots · riots · German
riots · rank #89,500 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,500
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Riel
Nearest frequency peer: Riel (-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 „riots“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Rezitation
Rezitation
10,504 corpus weight
- Richterspru…
Richterspruch
10,503 corpus weight
- Riel
Riel
10,502 corpus weight
- riots
riots
10,501 corpus weight
- rite
rite
10,500 corpus weight
- Rockkonzert
Rockkonzert
10,499 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „riots“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | riots |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „riots“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
riots is uncommon German at frequency #89,500 among 2,984 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs riot".
riots doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented 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 riots, spelled R-I-O-T-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs riot
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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