adäquater

[adɛˈkvaːtɐ]

/[adɛˈkvaːtɐ]/ adj

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The verdict

“adäquater” is uncommon German (frequency #72,115 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#72,115
frequency rank, German
6,976
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs adäquat

Corpus desk

Index DE-adaquater · adäquater · German

adäquater · rank #72,115 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #72,115
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,976
  • PHOTO-FINISH adress

Nearest frequency peer: adress (-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 „adäquater“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „adäquater“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for adäquater
PropertyValue
Headwordadäquater
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[adɛˈkvaːtɐ]
Letters9
Frequency rank#72,115
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „adäquater“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).adäquaterfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „adress“ (#72,114), „Agadir“ (#72,116), „abzuspielen“ (#72,113). Unter 6,976 „A“-Lemmata liegt „adäquater“ bei #72,115. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

adäquater is uncommon German at frequency #72,115 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [adɛˈkvaːtɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

adäquater has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is adäquater, spelled A-D-Ä-Q-U-A-T-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs adäquat
  2. 2
    Genitiv Singular Femininum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs adäquat
  3. 3
    Dativ Singular Femininum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs adäquat
  4. 4
    Genitiv Plural alle Genera der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs adäquat
  5. 5
    Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs adäquat

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "adäquater"?
"adäquater" is spelled A-D-Ä-Q-U-A-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is [adɛˈkvaːtɐ].
What does "adäquater" mean?
As an adjective, "adäquater" means: Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs adäquat
How do you pronounce "adäquater"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "adäquater" is [adɛˈkvaːtɐ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "adäquater", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

abspalten#72,110abchecken#72,106zuspricht#72,091Anführern#72,140

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list