Rostock

name

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"rostock" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“Rostock” is uncommon English (frequency #79,022 among 21,470 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#79,022
frequency rank, English
21,470
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An independent city in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Key facts for Rostock
PropertyValue
HeadwordRostock
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#79,022
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Rostock” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Rostock lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Rostock is uncommon English at frequency #79,022 among 21,470 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for Rostock in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Etymologically, the entry records: From German, from Middle Low German Rozstoc, from West Slavic (probably Polabian), from Proto-Slavic *orz-tokъ (“river fork”) (compare Czech roztok). The correct English form is Rostock, spelled R-O-S-T-O-C-K.

Definition

  1. 1
    An independent city in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
  2. 2
    A rural district of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Seat: Güstrow.

Etymology

From German, from Middle Low German Rozstoc, from West Slavic (probably Polabian), from Proto-Slavic *orz-tokъ (“river fork”) (compare Czech roztok).

This word in other languages

Rostock(Deutsch)

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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Rostock"?
"Rostock" is spelled R-O-S-T-O-C-K.
What does "Rostock" mean?
As a proper noun, "Rostock" means: An independent city in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
What is the origin of the word "Rostock"?
From German, from Middle Low German Rozstoc, from West Slavic (probably Polabian), from Proto-Slavic *orz-tokъ (“river fork”) (compare Czech roztok). See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Using “Rostock”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is R-O-S-T-O-C-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words

Other uncommon English words near this rank

Data Source

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list