writers
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The verdict
“writers” is uncommon German (frequency #65,896 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,896
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs writer
Corpus desk
Index DE-writers · writers · German
writers · rank #65,896 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,896
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH wuchtige
Nearest frequency peer: wuchtige (+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 „writers“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Wohnens
Wohnens
34,107 corpus weight
- writers
writers
34,105 corpus weight
- wuchtige
wuchtige
34,104 corpus weight
- Wunsches
Wunsches
34,102 corpus weight
- wähnte
wähnte
34,101 corpus weight
- Wälle
Wälle
34,100 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „writers“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | writers |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,896 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „writers“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
writers is uncommon German at frequency #65,896 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs writer".
No generated misspelling entries exist for writers in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is writers, spelled W-R-I-T-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs writer
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).