Terabyte

/[ˈteːʁaˌbaɪ̯t]/ noun

The verdict

“Terabyte” is an uncommon German word, ranked #70,875 in German word frequency and used as a noun.

#70,875
frequency rank, German
8
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: eine Mengeneinheit, siehe auch Byte

Key facts for Terabyte
PropertyValue
HeadwordTerabyte
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈteːʁaˌbaɪ̯t]
Letters8
Frequency rank#70,875
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Terabyte” sits in German frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Terabyte lands here:

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

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Terabyte is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈteːʁaˌbaɪ̯t]. Corpus data places it at rank #70,875 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "eine Mengeneinheit, siehe auch Byte".

No misspelling variants are generated for Terabyte in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Terabyte, spelled T-E-R-A-B-Y-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    eine Mengeneinheit, siehe auch Byte

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #70,875 in German

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. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “Terabyte”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is T-E-R-A-B-Y-T-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [ˈteːʁaˌbaɪ̯t] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
  • Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words

Nearby German words

Other entries that begin with the letter T in our German index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.