terrible
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The verdict
“terrible” is an uncommon German word, ranked #61,094 in German word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #61,094
- frequency rank, German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - erschreckend, schrecklich, grausam, furchtbar
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | terrible |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,094 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “terrible” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for terrible is 8 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #61,094 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "erschreckend, schrecklich, grausam, furchtbar".
terrible doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 terrible, spelled T-E-R-R-I-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1erschreckend, schrecklich, grausam, furchtbar
Antonyms
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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Using “terrible”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is T-E-R-R-I-B-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.