adäquater
[adɛˈkvaːtɐ]
The verdict
“adäquater” is uncommon German (frequency #72,115 among 113,935 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,115
- frequency rank, German
- 113,935
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs adäquat
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adäquater |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [adɛˈkvaːtɐ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “adäquater” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
adäquater is uncommon German at frequency #72,115 among 113,935 “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
- 1Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs adäquat
- 2Genitiv Singular Femininum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs adäquat
- 3Dativ Singular Femininum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs adäquat
- 4Genitiv Plural alle Genera der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs adäquat
- 5Nominativ 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.
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Using “adäquater”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-D-Ä-Q-U-A-T-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.