rittlings
[ˈʁɪtlɪŋs]
The verdict
“rittlings” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - wie ein Reiter sitzend, in der Haltung eines Reiters, aber verkehrt herum
Corpus desk
Index DE-rittlings · rittlings · German
rittlings · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rittlings |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [ˈʁɪtlɪŋs] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „rittlings“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
rittlings is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed [ˈʁɪtlɪŋs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "wie ein Reiter sitzend, in der Haltung eines Reiters, aber verkehrt herum".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rittlings, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is rittlings, spelled R-I-T-T-L-I-N-G-S.
Definition
- 1wie ein Reiter sitzend, in der Haltung eines Reiters, aber verkehrt herum
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rittlings appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Anstatt jedoch wie gewohnt in mich einzudringen, zog er mich näher an sich, hob meinen Körper etwas an, ohne daß ich mich versah, so daß ich rittlings auf ihm saß und er mich, tief in mich hineinstoßend, bis an die Grenzen meines Innersten erfüllte.“
„Er trat an’s Fenster: was sah er? er sah ein Mägdelein;
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.