Äquivozität
[ˌɛkvivot͡siˈtɛːt]
The verdict
“Äquivozität” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Eigenschaft (eines Wortes)/Tatsache, mehrdeutig (äquivok) zu sein, verschiedene Bedeutungen zu besitzen
Corpus desk
Index DE-aquivozitat · Äquivozität · German
Äquivozität · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Ä" 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 | Äquivozität |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌɛkvivot͡siˈtɛːt] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Äquivozität“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Äquivozität is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˌɛkvivot͡siˈtɛːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Eigenschaft (eines Wortes)/Tatsache, mehrdeutig (äquivok) zu sein, verschiedene Bedeutungen zu besitzen".
Äquivozität has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Äquivozität, spelled Ä-Q-U-I-V-O-Z-I-T-Ä-T.
Definition
- 1Eigenschaft (eines Wortes)/Tatsache, mehrdeutig (äquivok) zu sein, verschiedene Bedeutungen zu besitzen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Äquivozität appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Dabei wird die Analogie als Mittleres zwischen Äquivozität (Homonymität) und Univozität (Synonymität) verstanden. Auch Thomas behandelt die Analogie meist im Zusammenhang mit der Univozität und Äquivozität.“
„Weil es sich hier um linguistische Zufälligkeiten handelt, hat Aristoteles diese Äquivozität ἀπὸ τύχης [zufällige Homonymie] (Eth. Nic. 1096 b 26; lateinisch: aequivocum a casu) genannt, ohne jedoch immer diese Präzisierung anzugeben.“
Antonyms
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.