Seeräuber
[ˈzeːˌʁɔɪ̯bɐ]
The verdict
“Seeräuber” is an uncommon German word, ranked #60,066 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #60,066
- frequency rank, German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Person, die ihren Lebensunterhalt dadurch verdient, dass sie auf dem Meer Schiffe überfällt und ausraubt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Seeräuber |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzeːˌʁɔɪ̯bɐ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Seeräuber” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Seeräuber is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈzeːˌʁɔɪ̯bɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #60,066 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Person, die ihren Lebensunterhalt dadurch verdient, dass sie auf dem Meer Schiffe überfällt und ausraubt".
Zero misspellings are on record for Seeräuber in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Seeräuber, spelled S-E-E-R-Ä-U-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1Person, die ihren Lebensunterhalt dadurch verdient, dass sie auf dem Meer Schiffe überfällt und ausraubt
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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 “Seeräuber”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-E-E-R-Ä-U-B-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.