Wasserrad
[ˈvasɐˌʁaːt]
The verdict
“Wasserrad” is uncommon German (frequency #92,452 among 38,697 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,452
- frequency rank, German
- 38,697
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Gerät, welches die kinetische bzw. potenzielle Energie eines Flusses oder Baches in, für den Menschen nutzbare, Energie umwandelt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wasserrad |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvasɐˌʁaːt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Wasserrad” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Wasserrad is uncommon German at frequency #92,452 among 38,697 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈvasɐˌʁaːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gerät, welches die kinetische bzw. potenzielle Energie eines Flusses oder Baches in, für den Menschen nutzbare, Energie umwandelt".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Wasserrad, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 Wasserrad, spelled W-A-S-S-E-R-R-A-D.
Definition
- 1Gerät, welches die kinetische bzw. potenzielle Energie eines Flusses oder Baches in, für den Menschen nutzbare, Energie umwandelt
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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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is W-A-S-S-E-R-R-A-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.