Trog
[tʁoːk]
The verdict
“Trog” is an uncommon German word, ranked #50,115 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #50,115
- frequency rank, German
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - größeres längliches Gefäß, in das man zum Beispiel Wasser oder Futter für Tiere gibt oder in dem Teig zubereitet wurde
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Trog |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tʁoːk] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Trog” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Trog is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [tʁoːk]. Corpus data places it at rank #50,115 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Trog has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Trog, spelled T-R-O-G.
Definition
- 1größeres längliches Gefäß, in das man zum Beispiel Wasser oder Futter für Tiere gibt oder in dem Teig zubereitet wurde
- 2Tiefdruckgebiet innerhalb der Strömung auf der Rückseite eines sich abbauenden Tiefdruckgebiets
- 3mit Sedimenten angefülltes Becken
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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Using “Trog”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is T-R-O-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [tʁoːk] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.