rita
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,620
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rita is aGermannoun. It means: Dreizehenmöwe (Rissa tridactyla), ein sehr häufiger und regelmäßiger Brutvogel auf den Färöern (mehr als 100.000 Paare) Pronounced [ˈɹiːta]. It ranks #8,620 in German word frequency. Often confused with rot and RTL.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rita |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɹiːta] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #8,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for rita is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɹiːta]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,620 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Dreizehenmöwe (Rissa tridactyla), ein sehr häufiger und regelmäßiger Brutvogel auf den Färöern (mehr als 100.000 Paare)".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for rita, with forms such as "irta", "riat", and "ritta". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rot", "RTL", "RNA", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is rita, spelled R-I-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dreizehenmöwe (Rissa tridactyla), ein sehr häufiger und regelmäßiger Brutvogel auf den Färöern (mehr als 100.000 Paare)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: irta,riat,ritta,rrita,rtia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rita
Misspelling Variants of "rita"
Frequency rank: #8,620 in German
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