Rundfunkgerät

[ˈʁʊntfʊŋkɡəˌʁɛːt]

/[ˈʁʊntfʊŋkɡəˌʁɛːt]/ noun

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.

Key facts for Rundfunkgerät
PropertyValue
HeadwordRundfunkgerät
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈʁʊntfʊŋkɡəˌʁɛːt]
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Rundfunkgerät” sits in German frequency

Rundfunkgerätsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent German words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Gerät, mit dem man sich Rundfunksendungen anhören kann

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Rundfunkgerät appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Dem Inseratenteil einer führenden Tageszeitung entnahm ich kürzlich, dass man diesen kostbaren Kräften nicht nur Rundfunkgeräte, Fernsehapparate und Theaterkarten aufdrängt.“

Synonyms

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Rundfunkgerät"?
"Rundfunkgerät" is spelled R-U-N-D-F-U-N-K-G-E-R-Ä-T. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈʁʊntfʊŋkɡəˌʁɛːt].
What does "Rundfunkgerät" mean?
As a noun, "Rundfunkgerät" means: Gerät, mit dem man sich Rundfunksendungen anhören kann
How do you pronounce "Rundfunkgerät"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Rundfunkgerät" is [ˈʁʊntfʊŋkɡəˌʁɛːt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Rundfunkgerät" come from?
"Rundfunkgerät" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list