Tender
[ˈtɛndɐ]
The verdict
“Tender” is uncommon German (frequency #50,098 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,098
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kriegsschiff, das für die Versorgung anderer Schiffe zuständig ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-tender · Tender · German
Tender · rank #50,098 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,098
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH telefonierte
Nearest frequency peer: telefonierte (-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 „Tender“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- tatkräftige
tatkräftige
49,906 corpus weight
- Tatverdacht
Tatverdacht
49,905 corpus weight
- telefonierte
telefonierte
49,904 corpus weight
- Tender
Tender
49,903 corpus weight
- terrorisier…
terrorisieren
49,902 corpus weight
- Tessiner
Tessiner
49,901 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Tender“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tender |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtɛndɐ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Tender“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Tender is uncommon German at frequency #50,098 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈtɛndɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Tender, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Tender, spelled T-E-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Kriegsschiff, das für die Versorgung anderer Schiffe zuständig ist
- 2Vorratsbehälter einer Dampflokomotive
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tender appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Berücksichtigt werden sollte deshalb die Notwendigkeit, ein kostengünstiges System zu präsentieren, außerdem wollte die Marine keine Tender mehr mit 125 Mann Besatzung, wie dies bisher der Fall war.“
„Das 1. Ubootgeschwader verfügt noch über einen einzigen Tender, der exakt auf seine Bedürfnisse zugeschnitten ist, den Tender Main der Elbe-Klasse.“
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).