Rippchen
[ˈʁɪpçən]
The verdict
“Rippchen” is uncommon German (frequency #84,483 among 2,984 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,483
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Verkleinerungsform von Rippe
Corpus desk
Index DE-rippchen · Rippchen · German
Rippchen · rank #84,483 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,483
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Rodungen
Nearest frequency peer: Rodungen (+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 „Rippchen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Rikscha
Rikscha
15,521 corpus weight
- Ringkampf
Ringkampf
15,520 corpus weight
- Rippchen
Rippchen
15,518 corpus weight
- Rodungen
Rodungen
15,517 corpus weight
- Romanfigur
Romanfigur
15,516 corpus weight
- rosaroten
rosaroten
15,515 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Rippchen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rippchen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʁɪpçən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,483 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Rippchen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Rippchen is uncommon German at frequency #84,483 among 2,984 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʁɪpçən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Rippchen, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Rippchen, spelled R-I-P-P-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1Verkleinerungsform von Rippe
- 2Fleischstück mit Knochen aus dem Rippenbereich eines Schlachttieres (insbesondere des Schweins)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Rippchen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Mein Lieblingsaufenthalt im Hause war der große Rittersaal, der das halbe obere Stockwerk in seiner ganzen Breite einnimmt. Leise und nicht ohne Scheu vor der schweigenden Gesellschaft drinnen schlich ich mich hinein; über dem Kamin im Hintergrund des Saales, von Marmor in Basrelief gehauen, ist der Krieg des Todes mit dem menschlichen Geschlechte darges…
„Der Stallmeister folgte; in einer Ecke sah er einen kleinen bleichen Mann, der hastig an einem Rippchen zehrte, und sooft er einen Bissen getan, Lippen und Finger ableckte; […].“
This word in other languages
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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