RTL
[ɛʁ teː ˈʔɛl]
The verdict
“RTL” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #4,300 in German word frequency and used as an abbreviation.
- #4,300
- frequency rank, German
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Radio Télé Lëtzebuerg: deutschsprachiger privater Fernsehsender
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 | RTL |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ɛʁ teː ˈʔɛl] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “RTL” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for RTL is 3 letters long, classified as an abbreviation, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɛʁ teː ˈʔɛl]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,300 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Radio Télé Lëtzebuerg: deutschsprachiger privater Fernsehsender".
No generated misspelling entries exist for RTL in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RV", "RZ", "Ru", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is RTL, spelled R-T-L.
Definition
- 1Radio Télé Lëtzebuerg: deutschsprachiger privater Fernsehsender
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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Using “RTL”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is R-T-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ɛʁ teː ˈʔɛl] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “RV” - see the side-by-side comparison. RTL vs RV
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.