Rotschwänzchen
German, noun
Rotschwänzchen is spelled R-O-T-S-C-H-W-Ä-N-Z-C-H-E-N (14 letters) and appears about once in every 46 million words in written German, the 406,877th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rotschwänzchen is a German neuter noun meaning “redstart (bird of the genus Phoenicurus)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a diminutive of Rotschwanz.
What does Rotschwänzchen mean in English?
noun
- 1
neuterdiminutive of Rotschwanz
- 2
colloquialneuterredstart (bird of the genus Phoenicurus)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of Rotschwänzchen
- Rotschwänzchens genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Rotschwänzchen in German?
Rotschwänzchen appears about once in every 46 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).