rob
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The verdict
“rob” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,958) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,958
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - einer Person oder einer Institution (Bank, Laden) unerlaubt und meist gewaltsam Geld oder Eigentum wegnehmen: berauben
Corpus desk
Index DE-rob · rob · German
rob · rank #11,958 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,958
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Rn
Nearest frequency peer: Rn (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „rob“
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88,045 corpus weight
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88,044 corpus weight
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88,043 corpus weight
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88,042 corpus weight
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What this shows Balken platzieren „rob“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rob |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #11,958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „rob“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rob is neighbouring look-alikes ("Rs", "RV", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced […]. Frequency #11,958 among 2,984 “R” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rob, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Rs", "RV", "RZ", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is rob, spelled R-O-B.
Definition
- 1einer Person oder einer Institution (Bank, Laden) unerlaubt und meist gewaltsam Geld oder Eigentum wegnehmen: berauben
- 2jemandem Chancen, Positionen, Vorstellungen und anderes entziehen: jemanden einer Sache berauben
- 3einen Raub begehen: rauben
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rob appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
An old woman was robbed in the park. The thief stole money from her purse.
Three men robbed a bank in the city centre yesterday.
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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