Rundfunkgerät
[ˈʁʊntfʊŋkɡəˌʁɛːt]
The verdict
“Rundfunkgerät” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gerät, mit dem man sich Rundfunksendungen anhören kann
Corpus desk
Index DE-rundfunkgerat · Rundfunkgerät · German
Rundfunkgerät · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rundfunkgerät |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʁʊntfʊŋkɡəˌʁɛːt] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Rundfunkgerät” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Rundfunkgerät is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʁʊntfʊŋkɡəˌʁɛːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gerät, mit dem man sich Rundfunksendungen anhören kann".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Rundfunkgerät, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Rundfunkgerät, spelled R-U-N-D-F-U-N-K-G-E-R-Ä-T.
Definition
- 1Gerät, mit dem man sich Rundfunksendungen anhören kann
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Rundfunkgerät appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Dem Inseratenteil einer führenden Tageszeitung entnahm ich kürzlich, dass man diesen kostbaren Kräften nicht nur Rundfunkgeräte, Fernsehapparate und Theaterkarten aufdrängt.“
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