affirmativ
[afɪʁmaˈtiːf]
The verdict
“affirmativ” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zustimmung/Affirmation erkennen lassend
Corpus desk
Index DE-affirmativ · affirmativ · German
affirmativ · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | affirmativ |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [afɪʁmaˈtiːf] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „affirmativ“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
affirmativ is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [afɪʁmaˈtiːf]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Zustimmung/Affirmation erkennen lassend".
affirmativ has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is affirmativ, spelled A-F-F-I-R-M-A-T-I-V.
Definition
- 1Zustimmung/Affirmation erkennen lassend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how affirmativ appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Als in den sechziger Jahren die erste Dissertation über meinen Roman „Halbzeit“ geschrieben wurde, ließ der Doktorand durchaus einiges gelten, aber sein Hauptvorwurf war dann doch, der Roman sei letzten Endes eben affirmativ. Und schlimmer als affirmativ konnte nichts sein.“
„Daher waren Christenfeinde in der frühen Kaiserzeit weniger von Hass gegen die neue Lehre erfüllt; ihre Abneigung entsprang vielmehr ihrer affirmativen Haltung zum Imperium.“
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.