Tracer
[ˈtʁɛɪ̯sɐ]
The verdict
“Tracer” is uncommon German (frequency #83,388 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,388
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - radioaktiver Stoff, mit dem biochemische Vorgänge im Organismus nachgewiesen und beobachtet werden
Corpus desk
Index DE-tracer · Tracer · German
Tracer · rank #83,388 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,388
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Tragetasche
Nearest frequency peer: Tragetasche (+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 „Tracer“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Topfen
Topfen
16,617 corpus weight
- totalitärer
totalitärer
16,616 corpus weight
- toujours
toujours
16,615 corpus weight
- Tracer
Tracer
16,613 corpus weight
- Tragetasche
Tragetasche
16,612 corpus weight
- Trainingsge…
Trainingsgelände
16,611 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Tracer“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tracer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtʁɛɪ̯sɐ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,388 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Tracer“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Tracer is uncommon German at frequency #83,388 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈtʁɛɪ̯sɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "radioaktiver Stoff, mit dem biochemische Vorgänge im Organismus nachgewiesen und beobachtet werden".
Tracer has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Tracer, spelled T-R-A-C-E-R.
Definition
- 1radioaktiver Stoff, mit dem biochemische Vorgänge im Organismus nachgewiesen und beobachtet werden
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Tracer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tritium wird zum Beispiel als Tracer verwendet.
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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