Rittergut
[ˈʁɪtɐˌɡuːt]
The verdict
“Rittergut” is uncommon German (frequency #63,706 among 42,116 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,706
- frequency rank, German
- 42,116
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ehemaliges Landgut im deutschen Osten, dessen Besitzer ursprünglich zu Ritterdiensten verpflichtet war und dafür Steuerbegünstigung, Patrimonialgerichtsbarkeit, Patronatsrechte, Jagdrechte und ande...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rittergut |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʁɪtɐˌɡuːt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Rittergut” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Rittergut is uncommon German at frequency #63,706 among 42,116 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʁɪtɐˌɡuːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ehemaliges Landgut im deutschen Osten, dessen Besitzer ursprünglich zu Ritterdiensten verpflichtet war und dafür Steuerbegünstigung, Patrimonialgerichtsbarkeit, Patronatsrechte, Jagdrechte und ande...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Rittergut, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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. The correct German form is Rittergut, spelled R-I-T-T-E-R-G-U-T.
Definition
- 1ehemaliges Landgut im deutschen Osten, dessen Besitzer ursprünglich zu Ritterdiensten verpflichtet war und dafür Steuerbegünstigung, Patrimonialgerichtsbarkeit, Patronatsrechte, Jagdrechte und andere Rechte besaß
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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Using “Rittergut”
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- The one correct German spelling is R-I-T-T-E-R-G-U-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.