strawberry

[ˈstɹɔːb(ə)ɹi]

/[ˈstɹɔːb(ə)ɹi]/ noun

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The verdict

“strawberry” is uncommon German (frequency #70,848 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#70,848
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Erdbeere

Corpus desk

Index DE-strawberry · strawberry · German

strawberry · rank #70,848 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #70,848
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH Streikende

Nearest frequency peer: Streikende (+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 „strawberry“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „strawberry“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for strawberry
PropertyValue
Headwordstrawberry
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈstɹɔːb(ə)ɹi]
Letters10
Frequency rank#70,848
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „strawberry“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).strawberryfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Streikende“ (#70,849), „Stirnseite“ (#70,846), „studier“ (#70,850). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „strawberry“ bei #70,848. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

strawberry is uncommon German at frequency #70,848 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈstɹɔːb(ə)ɹi]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Erdbeere".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for strawberry, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is strawberry, spelled S-T-R-A-W-B-E-R-R-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Erdbeere

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how strawberry appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. A woman, searching for strawberries, saw the puma in the woods.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "strawberry"?
"strawberry" is spelled S-T-R-A-W-B-E-R-R-Y. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈstɹɔːb(ə)ɹi].
What does "strawberry" mean?
As a noun, "strawberry" means: Erdbeere
How do you pronounce "strawberry"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "strawberry" is [ˈstɹɔːb(ə)ɹi]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "strawberry" come from?
"strawberry" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "strawberry", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Streikende#70,849Stirnseite#70,846Stickoxide#70,842Steuerbord#70,841

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list