rita

/[ˈɹiːta]/ noun

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.

Key facts for rita
PropertyValue
Headwordrita
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈɹiːta]
Letters4
Frequency rank#8,620
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of rita in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Dreizehenmöwe (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"

irta4riat4ritta5rrita5rtia4
Misspelling Variants of "rita"

Frequency rank: #8,620 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rita"?
"rita" is spelled R-I-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈɹiːta].
What does "rita" mean?
As a noun, "rita" means: Dreizehenmöwe (Rissa tridactyla), ein sehr häufiger und regelmäßiger Brutvogel auf den Färöern (mehr als 100.000 Paare)
What words are commonly confused with "rita"?
"rita" is commonly confused with "rot", "RTL", "RNA". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rita"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rita" is [ˈɹiːta]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rita" come from?
"rita" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.