roads

Name: roads, German Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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/[…]/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“roads” is uncommon German (frequency #90,819 among 2,984 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#90,819
frequency rank, German: 2,984
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs road

Corpus desk

Index DE-roads · roads · German

roads · rank #90,819 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-RARE #90,819
LEN-MID 5 letters
VOW-2 2 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-0 0 variants
BOOK-MID 2,984
PHOTO-FINISH rissig

Nearest frequency peer: rissig (-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.

Rieneck

9,185
rinn

9,184
rissig

9,183
roads

9,182
Roastbeef

9,181
Rockford

9,180

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „roads“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Key facts for roads
Property	Value
Headword	roads
Language	German
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	[…]
Letters	5
Frequency rank	#90,819
Misspellings tracked	0
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „roads“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.roadsfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#90,819

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „rissig“ (#90,818), „Roastbeef“ (#90,820), „rinn“ (#90,817). Unter 2,984 „R“-Lemmata liegt „roads“ bei #90,819. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

roads is uncommon German at frequency #90,819 among 2,984 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs road".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for roads, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is roads, spelled R-O-A-D-S.

Definition

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Plural des Substantivs road

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "roads"?

"roads" is spelled R-O-A-D-S. The IPA pronunciation is […].

What does "roads" mean?

As a noun, "roads" means: Plural des Substantivs road

How do you pronounce "roads"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "roads" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "roads" come from?

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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "roads", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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