trapper
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The verdict
“trapper” is uncommon German (frequency #75,134 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,134
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trapper, Pelzjäger, Fallensteller
Corpus desk
Index DE-trapper · trapper · German
trapper · rank #75,134 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,134
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH tragfähigen
Nearest frequency peer: tragfähigen (-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 „trapper“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- toxin
toxin
24,869 corpus weight
- tragfähigen
tragfähigen
24,868 corpus weight
- trapper
trapper
24,867 corpus weight
- treck
treck
24,866 corpus weight
- Treppenhäus…
Treppenhäuser
24,865 corpus weight
- Treppenstei…
Treppensteigen
24,864 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „trapper“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trapper |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „trapper“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
trapper is uncommon German at frequency #75,134 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Trapper, Pelzjäger, Fallensteller".
No generated misspelling entries exist for trapper in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 trapper, spelled T-R-A-P-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Trapper, Pelzjäger, Fallensteller
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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