travels
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The verdict
“travels” is uncommon German (frequency #93,723 among 35,386 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,723
- frequency rank, German
- 35,386
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs travel
Corpus desk
Index DE-travels · travels · German
travels · rank #93,723 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,723
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 35,386
- PHOTO-FINISH Traunreut
Nearest frequency peer: Traunreut (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “travels”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- transplanti…
transplantiert
6,281 corpus weight
- Trauerrede
Trauerrede
6,280 corpus weight
- Traunreut
Traunreut
6,279 corpus weight
- travels
travels
6,278 corpus weight
- Tummelplatz
Tummelplatz
6,276 corpus weight
- tuscheln
tuscheln
6,273 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “travels” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | travels |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #93,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “travels” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
travels is uncommon German at frequency #93,723 among 35,386 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs travel".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for travels, 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is travels, spelled T-R-A-V-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs travel
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.