rot
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,020
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rot is anGermanadj. It means: eine bunte Farbe, im Spektrum die langwelligste Farbe; eine der drei Grundfarben des digitalen RGB-Farbraums Pronounced [ʁoːt]. It ranks #1,020 in German word frequency. Often confused with Rs and RV.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rot |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ʁoːt] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for rot is 3 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʁoːt]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,020 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for rot in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is rot, spelled R-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine bunte Farbe, im Spektrum die langwelligste Farbe; eine der drei Grundfarben des digitalen RGB-Farbraums
- 2eine rötliche (von mahagony bis orange) Farbe habend
- 3zum linken Spektrum gehörend, links stehend, links geordnet
- 4den Ureinwohnern Amerikas (insbesondere Nordamerikas; wegen des im Vergleich zu Europäern durchschnittlich höheren Melaninanteils in der Haut) zuzuordnen, Indianer seiend
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #1,020 in German
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