spectator
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The verdict
“spectator” is uncommon German (frequency #74,023 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,023
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zuschauer
Corpus desk
Index DE-spectator · spectator · German
spectator · rank #74,023 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,023
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sparkonto
Nearest frequency peer: Sparkonto (-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 „spectator“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Sonderfälle
Sonderfälle
25,982 corpus weight
- Sonderzahlu…
Sonderzahlungen
25,981 corpus weight
- Sparkonto
Sparkonto
25,979 corpus weight
- spectator
spectator
25,978 corpus weight
- Sperrzone
Sperrzone
25,976 corpus weight
- Spielgeräte
Spielgeräte
25,974 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „spectator“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spectator |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,023 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „spectator“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
spectator is uncommon German at frequency #74,023 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Zuschauer".
spectator has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 spectator, spelled S-P-E-C-T-A-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1Zuschauer
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how spectator appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The spectators are watching the rugby match.
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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