Rote Armee
[ˈʁoːtə aʁˈmeː]
The verdict
“Rote Armee” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rote Arbeiter- und Bauernarmee (1918–1946), Land- und Luftstreitkräfte, ohne Seestreitkräfte, Sowjetrusslands bzw. der Sowjetunion
Corpus desk
Index DE-rote-armee · Rote Armee · German
Rote Armee · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | Rote Armee |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈʁoːtə aʁˈmeː] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Rote Armee“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Rote Armee is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase, transcribed [ˈʁoːtə aʁˈmeː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Rote Armee, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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. The correct German form is Rote Armee, spelled R-O-T-E- -A-R-M-E-E.
Definition
- 1Rote Arbeiter- und Bauernarmee (1918–1946), Land- und Luftstreitkräfte, ohne Seestreitkräfte, Sowjetrusslands bzw. der Sowjetunion
- 2Sowjetarmee (eigentlich Sowjetarmee und Seekriegsflotte, 1946–1991), Streitkräfte der Sowjetunion
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Rote Armee appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ende November hatte die Rote Armee Rostow am Don wieder eingenommen, das die Deutschen einige Tage zuvor besetzt hatten; das war der erste größere militärische Erfolg der Sowjets seit Beginn des Feldzugs.“
„Mit dem Partisanenführer Tito, der bereits große Teile Jugoslawiens beherrschte, hatte der sowjetische Diktator verabredet, daß die Rote Armee zu ihm und dann gemeinsam weiter westwärts durchstoßen werde.“
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.