Rochester
[ˈʁɔt͡ʃɪstə]
The verdict
“Rochester” is uncommon German (frequency #52,378 among 2,984 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,378
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stadt in der englischen Grafschaft Kent
Corpus desk
Index DE-rochester · Rochester · German
Rochester · rank #52,378 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,378
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH riskanten
Nearest frequency peer: riskanten (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Rochester“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Rheinprovinz
Rheinprovinz
47,626 corpus weight
- Riffs
Riffs
47,625 corpus weight
- riskanten
riskanten
47,624 corpus weight
- Rochester
Rochester
47,623 corpus weight
- rodin
rodin
47,622 corpus weight
- roher
roher
47,620 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Rochester“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rochester |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈʁɔt͡ʃɪstə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Rochester“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Rochester is uncommon German at frequency #52,378 among 2,984 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈʁɔt͡ʃɪstə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Rochester, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Rochester, spelled R-O-C-H-E-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Stadt in der englischen Grafschaft Kent
- 2Stadt im US-Bundesstaat New York
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Rochester appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rochester liegt östlich von London.
„Jahre später sagte mein Kollege Gregg McCrary während der Arbeit an den Arthur-Shawcross-Prostituiertenmorden in Rochester, New York, korrekt voraus, dass sich der Mörder als jemand herausstellen würde, den viele Polizisten gut kannten und der sie in ihren Lieblingslokalen begeistert aushorchte.“
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); 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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).