Terabyte

[ˈteːʁaˌbaɪ̯t]

/[ˈteːʁaˌbaɪ̯t]/ noun

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The verdict

“Terabyte” is uncommon German (frequency #70,875 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#70,875
frequency rank, German
2,684
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Mengeneinheit, siehe auch Byte

Corpus desk

Index DE-terabyte · Terabyte · German

Terabyte · rank #70,875 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #70,875
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,684
  • PHOTO-FINISH temporärer

Nearest frequency peer: temporärer (-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 „Terabyte“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Terabyte
PropertyValue
HeadwordTerabyte
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈteːʁaˌbaɪ̯t]
Letters8
Frequency rank#70,875
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Terabyte“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.Terabytefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „temporärer“ (#70,874), „Teamfähigkeit“ (#70,873), „tiefgehende“ (#70,877). Unter 2,684 „T“-Lemmata liegt „Terabyte“ bei #70,875. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Terabyte is uncommon German at frequency #70,875 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈteːʁaˌbaɪ̯t]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Mengeneinheit, siehe auch Byte".

Terabyte has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Terabyte, spelled T-E-R-A-B-Y-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    eine Mengeneinheit, siehe auch Byte

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Dieser Cluster hat ein Speichervolumen von 80 Terabytes.
  2. „Nun ist die Sprache der Aweti mit all ihren Besonderheiten in 1512 Dateien abgelegt und auf den - immerhin 250 Terabyte fassenden - Servern im Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik in Nijmegen konserviert.“

Synonyms

Tebibyte

This word in other languages

terabyte(English)

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 "Terabyte"?
"Terabyte" is spelled T-E-R-A-B-Y-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈteːʁaˌbaɪ̯t].
What does "Terabyte" mean?
As a noun, "Terabyte" means: eine Mengeneinheit, siehe auch Byte
How do you pronounce "Terabyte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Terabyte" is [ˈteːʁaˌbaɪ̯t]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Terabyte" come from?
"Terabyte" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Tänzchen#70,903umdrehte#70,906Umgegend#70,907Sterbens#70,839

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list