traverse
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The verdict
“traverse” is uncommon German (frequency #87,153 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,153
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - durchlaufen, überqueren, verfahren
Corpus desk
Index DE-traverse · traverse · German
traverse · rank #87,153 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,153
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Transplantati…
Nearest frequency peer: Transplantationen (-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 „traverse“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Tranche
Tranche
12,850 corpus weight
- Transplanta…
Transplantationen
12,849 corpus weight
- traverse
traverse
12,848 corpus weight
- treaty
treaty
12,847 corpus weight
- Treibern
Treibern
12,846 corpus weight
- Tretroller
Tretroller
12,845 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „traverse“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | traverse |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,153 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „traverse“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
traverse is uncommon German at frequency #87,153 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "durchlaufen, überqueren, verfahren".
Zero misspellings are on record for traverse in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is traverse, spelled T-R-A-V-E-R-S-E.
Definition
- 1durchlaufen, überqueren, verfahren
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).