rye
[ɹaɪ]
The verdict
“rye” is uncommon German (frequency #63,714 among 2,984 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,714
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pflanzen einer Getreidesorte; Roggen
Corpus desk
Index DE-rye · rye · German
rye · rank #63,714 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,714
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH rutschten
Nearest frequency peer: rutschten (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „rye“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- runterfallen
runterfallen
36,290 corpus weight
- ruten
ruten
36,289 corpus weight
- rutschten
rutschten
36,288 corpus weight
- rye
rye
36,287 corpus weight
- Räuchern
Räuchern
36,286 corpus weight
- Röntgenaufn…
Röntgenaufnahmen
36,285 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „rye“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rye |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɹaɪ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #63,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „rye“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
rye is uncommon German at frequency #63,714 among 2,984 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɹaɪ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
rye doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is rye, spelled R-Y-E.
Definition
- 1Pflanzen einer Getreidesorte; Roggen
- 2Samen von [1]
- 3Kurzform von rye whisky
- 4ein männlicher Zigeuner
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rye appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"The same year in which the first Water-mill was erected, the General Court was presented with a specimen of rye."
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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