Adverb
[atˈvɛʁp]
The verdict
“Adverb” is uncommon German (frequency #81,243 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,243
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wort, welches die Funktion hat, die Umstände von Tätigkeiten, Personen, Gegenständen, Ereignissen, Eigenschaften und Verhältnissen zu spezifizieren, also genauer zu beschreiben
Corpus desk
Index DE-adverb · Adverb · German
Adverb · rank #81,243 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,243
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Adenau
Nearest frequency peer: Adenau (-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 „Adverb“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Achleitner
Achleitner
18,761 corpus weight
- Achtjähriger
Achtjähriger
18,760 corpus weight
- Adenau
Adenau
18,759 corpus weight
- Adverb
Adverb
18,758 corpus weight
- Aerosole
Aerosole
18,757 corpus weight
- Alamo
Alamo
18,755 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Adverb“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Adverb |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [atˈvɛʁp] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #81,243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Adverb“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Adverb is uncommon German at frequency #81,243 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [atˈvɛʁp]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Wort, welches die Funktion hat, die Umstände von Tätigkeiten, Personen, Gegenständen, Ereignissen, Eigenschaften und Verhältnissen zu spezifizieren, also genauer zu beschreiben".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Adverb in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Adverb, spelled A-D-V-E-R-B.
Definition
- 1Wort, welches die Funktion hat, die Umstände von Tätigkeiten, Personen, Gegenständen, Ereignissen, Eigenschaften und Verhältnissen zu spezifizieren, also genauer zu beschreiben
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Adverb appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Neben Wörtern wie „hier“ und „jetzt“ gibt es eine ganze Menge von Adverbien wie z. B. „mittags“, „beispielsweise“ und „verdientermaßen“, die aus Ableitungen entstanden sind.
„In semantischer Hinsicht modifizieren Adverbien ein Geschehen, ein Objekt o. Ä. bezüglich seiner Umstände (wo, wann, wie, warum, mit welcher Wahrscheinlichkeit usw.): daher werden Adverbien oft auch als Umstandswörter bezeichnet.“
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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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