zerstörter
[t͡sɛɐ̯ˈʃtøːɐ̯tɐ]
The verdict
“zerstörter” is uncommon German (frequency #84,834 among 1,996 “Z” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,834
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs zerstört
Corpus desk
Index DE-zerstorter · zerstörter · German
zerstörter · rank #84,834 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,834
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH zerstörerisch
Nearest frequency peer: zerstörerisch (-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 „zerstörter“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- zermahlen
zermahlen
15,170 corpus weight
- zermalmt
zermalmt
15,169 corpus weight
- zerstöreris…
zerstörerisch
15,168 corpus weight
- zerstörter
zerstörter
15,167 corpus weight
- Zerstörungs…
Zerstörungswut
15,166 corpus weight
- zielgericht…
zielgerichteten
15,165 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „zerstörter“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zerstörter |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [t͡sɛɐ̯ˈʃtøːɐ̯tɐ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,834 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „zerstörter“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
zerstörter is uncommon German at frequency #84,834 among 1,996 “Z” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [t͡sɛɐ̯ˈʃtøːɐ̯tɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for zerstörter, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is zerstörter, spelled Z-E-R-S-T-Ö-R-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs zerstört
- 2Genitiv Singular Femininum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs zerstört
- 3Dativ Singular Femininum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs zerstört
- 4Genitiv Plural alle Genera der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs zerstört
- 5Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs zerstört
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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