rott
[ʁɔt]
The verdict
“rott” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30,266) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30,266
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - im Verfall/in Zersetzung begriffen
Corpus desk
Index DE-rott · rott · German
rott · rank #30,266 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,266
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Rothe
Nearest frequency peer: Rothe (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „rott“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- renne
renne
69,739 corpus weight
- Reuss
Reuss
69,738 corpus weight
- Rezeptoren
Rezeptoren
69,737 corpus weight
- Rothe
Rothe
69,736 corpus weight
- rott
rott
69,735 corpus weight
- Rus
Rus
69,734 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „rott“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rott |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ʁɔt] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #30,266 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „rott“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rott is neighbouring look-alikes ("RTL", "RTS", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [ʁɔt]. Frequency #30,266 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Gloss: "im Verfall/in Zersetzung begriffen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for rott, with forms such as "ortt", "rrott", and "rtot". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RTL", "RTS", "RTW", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is rott, spelled R-O-T-T.
Definition
- 1im Verfall/in Zersetzung begriffen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rott appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Manche Quellen behaupten deshalb, der hölzerne Rumpf des Schiffes sei schon rott gewesen.“
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ortt
- rrott
- rtot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rott - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rott", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).