senkrechter
[ˈzɛŋkˌʁɛçtɐ]
The verdict
“senkrechter” is uncommon German (frequency #97,685 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,685
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs senkrecht
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | senkrechter |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈzɛŋkˌʁɛçtɐ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #97,685 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “senkrechter” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
senkrechter is uncommon German at frequency #97,685 among 107,600 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈzɛŋkˌʁɛçtɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
senkrechter has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is senkrechter, spelled S-E-N-K-R-E-C-H-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs senkrecht
- 2Genitiv Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs senkrecht
- 3Dativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs senkrecht
- 4Genitiv Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs senkrecht
- 5Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs senkrecht
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 “senkrechter”
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- The one correct German spelling is S-E-N-K-R-E-C-H-T-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.