Rotte
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#56,483
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Rotte is aGermannoun. It means: ein mittelalterliches Saiteninstrument Pronounced [ˈʁɔtə].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rotte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʁɔtə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,483 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Rotte is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʁɔtə]. Corpus data places it at rank #56,483 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Rotte in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Rotte, spelled R-O-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ein mittelalterliches Saiteninstrument
- 2eine kleinere, ungeordnete Gruppe von Menschen
- 3ein kleiner Verband, zwei gemeinsam im Einsatz stehende Flugzeuge oder Schiffe, eine Untereinheit eines Landsknechtsheeres mehrere hintereinanderstehende Soldaten
- 4eine Gruppe von Wildschweinen oder Wölfen
- 5eine Gruppe von Gleisbauarbeitern oder von Holzfällern
- 6eine Siedlung aus wenigen Häusern, die verstreut liegen
- 7das Verrotten
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #56,483 in German
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