Animosität
[ˌanimoziˈtɛːt]
The verdict
“Animosität” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. 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) - feindselige Einstellung gegen jemanden oder etwas
Corpus desk
Index DE-animositat · Animosität · German
Animosität · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | Animosität |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌanimoziˈtɛːt] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Animosität“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Animosität is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˌanimoziˈtɛːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "feindselige Einstellung gegen jemanden oder etwas".
Zero misspellings are on record for Animosität in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Animosität, spelled A-N-I-M-O-S-I-T-Ä-T.
Definition
- 1feindselige Einstellung gegen jemanden oder etwas
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Animosität appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Innerhalb der Mannschaft sind leichte Animositäten spürbar.
„Doch lassen sich die Titanenkämpfe der Epoche nicht trennen von literarischem Futterneid, persönlichen Animositäten und der schieren Lust an der Invektive.“
This word in other languages
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.