Setzer
[ˈzɛt͡sɐ]
The verdict
“Setzer” is uncommon German (frequency #74,000 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,000
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Druckwesen: Person, die einen vorgegebenen Text für den Druck vorbereitet, Kurzwort für Schriftsetzer
Corpus desk
Index DE-setzer · Setzer · German
Setzer · rank #74,000 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,000
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Seminarraum
Nearest frequency peer: Seminarraum (-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 „Setzer“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Scrabble
Scrabble
26,006 corpus weight
- seller
seller
26,003 corpus weight
- Seminarraum
Seminarraum
26,002 corpus weight
- Setzer
Setzer
26,001 corpus weight
- Sicherheits…
Sicherheitsdienste
25,997 corpus weight
- Sicherheits…
Sicherheitszone
25,996 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Setzer“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Setzer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzɛt͡sɐ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Setzer“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Setzer is uncommon German at frequency #74,000 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈzɛt͡sɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Druckwesen: Person, die einen vorgegebenen Text für den Druck vorbereitet, Kurzwort für Schriftsetzer".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Setzer, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Setzer, spelled S-E-T-Z-E-R.
Definition
- 1Druckwesen: Person, die einen vorgegebenen Text für den Druck vorbereitet, Kurzwort für Schriftsetzer
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Setzer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Münzer hatte sich von einem Setzer, der nach Hause ging, das Blatt bringen lassen, um zu prüfen, ob alles in Ordnung sei.“
„Stuff selbst hatte berichten müssen von dem Angriff auf Gareis, der auf einer Wiese explodierten Bombe, von dem vorläufig unaufgeklärten Überfall auf einen Setzer in der Redaktion der »Bauernschaft«, von den Bauernverhaftungen.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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