Tyrannosaurus
[tyʁanoˈzaʊ̯ʁʊs]
The verdict
“Tyrannosaurus” is uncommon German (frequency #96,392 among 35,386 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,392
- frequency rank, German
- 35,386
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Vertreter einer Gattung großer fleischfressender Dinosaurier aus der späten Kreidezeit
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tyrannosaurus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tyʁanoˈzaʊ̯ʁʊs] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #96,392 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Tyrannosaurus” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Tyrannosaurus is uncommon German at frequency #96,392 among 35,386 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [tyʁanoˈzaʊ̯ʁʊs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vertreter einer Gattung großer fleischfressender Dinosaurier aus der späten Kreidezeit".
Tyrannosaurus has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Tyrannosaurus, spelled T-Y-R-A-N-N-O-S-A-U-R-U-S.
Definition
- 1Vertreter einer Gattung großer fleischfressender Dinosaurier aus der späten Kreidezeit
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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 “Tyrannosaurus”
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- The one correct German spelling is T-Y-R-A-N-N-O-S-A-U-R-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.