worker
[ˈwɜːkəʳ]
The verdict
“worker” is uncommon German (frequency #58,464 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,464
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arbeiter
Corpus desk
Index DE-worker · worker · German
worker · rank #58,464 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,464
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH wrote
Nearest frequency peer: wrote (+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 „worker“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- wohnende
wohnende
41,541 corpus weight
- Wolgograd
Wolgograd
41,539 corpus weight
- worker
worker
41,537 corpus weight
- wrote
wrote
41,536 corpus weight
- Wärmepumpe
Wärmepumpe
41,535 corpus weight
- wärmere
wärmere
41,534 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „worker“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | worker |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈwɜːkəʳ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #58,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „worker“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
worker is uncommon German at frequency #58,464 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈwɜːkəʳ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Arbeiter".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for worker, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 worker, spelled W-O-R-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1Arbeiter
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how worker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber"
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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