Wide Receiver
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The verdict
“Wide Receiver” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Spieler, dessen Hauptaufgabe das Passempfangen ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-wide-receiver · Wide Receiver · German
Wide Receiver · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wide Receiver |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Wide Receiver“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Wide Receiver is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Spieler, dessen Hauptaufgabe das Passempfangen ist".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Wide Receiver, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Wide Receiver, spelled W-I-D-E- -R-E-C-E-I-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Spieler, dessen Hauptaufgabe das Passempfangen ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Wide Receiver appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Harrison ist hager, im Football wäre er der Wide Receiver und Henderson der Linebacker.“
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.