Roter Riesling
[ˌʁoːtɐ ˈʁiːslɪŋ]
The verdict
“Roter Riesling” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Eine uralte Weißwein-Rebsorte (!), die als Urform des heutigen Weißen Rieslings - meistens nur Riesling genannt - gilt. Im Gegensatz zum gewohnten Weißen Riesling verfärben sich die Beeren des Rote...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Roter Riesling |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌʁoːtɐ ˈʁiːslɪŋ] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Roter Riesling” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Roter Riesling is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌʁoːtɐ ˈʁiːslɪŋ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Roter Riesling in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Roter Riesling, spelled R-O-T-E-R- -R-I-E-S-L-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Eine uralte Weißwein-Rebsorte (!), die als Urform des heutigen Weißen Rieslings - meistens nur Riesling genannt - gilt. Im Gegensatz zum gewohnten Weißen Riesling verfärben sich die Beeren des Roten Rieslings von Grün ins Rote und haben bei Erntereife eine ins Bläuliche spielende Färbung. Das gekelterte Endergebnis ist ein weißer Wein.
- 2Wein aus Trauben des Roten Rieslings.
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- The one correct German spelling is R-O-T-E-R- -R-I-E-S-L-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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