robbery
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The verdict
“robbery” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unrechtmäßiges Wegnehmen, meist mit Gewalt: Raub
Corpus desk
Index DE-robbery · robbery · German
robbery · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | robbery |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „robbery“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
robbery is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "unrechtmäßiges Wegnehmen, meist mit Gewalt: Raub".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for robbery, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is robbery, spelled R-O-B-B-E-R-Y.
Definition
- 1unrechtmäßiges Wegnehmen, meist mit Gewalt: Raub
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how robbery appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The gang committed a robbery.
“John, 28, is serving eight years for robbery.”
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.