Außerordentlicher Professor
[ˌaʊ̯sɐʔɔʁdn̩tlɪçɐ pʁoˈfɛsoːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Außerordentlicher Professor” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 27
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Österreich, Schweiz, in Deutschland Professor, der keinen Sitz und kein Stimmrecht in der Fakultät hat, sondern nur als Delegierter oder Fachvertreter in der Fakultät agiert
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Außerordentlicher Professor |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌaʊ̯sɐʔɔʁdn̩tlɪçɐ pʁoˈfɛsoːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 27 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Außerordentlicher Professor” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Außerordentlicher Professor is 27 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌaʊ̯sɐʔɔʁdn̩tlɪçɐ pʁoˈfɛsoːɐ̯]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Österreich, Schweiz, in Deutschland Professor, der keinen Sitz und kein Stimmrecht in der Fakultät hat, sondern nur als Delegierter oder Fachvertreter in der Fakultät agiert".
No misspelling variants are generated for Außerordentlicher Professor in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Außerordentlicher Professor, spelled A-U-S-S-E-R-O-R-D-E-N-T-L-I-C-H-E-R- -P-R-O-F-E-S-S-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Österreich, Schweiz, in Deutschland Professor, der keinen Sitz und kein Stimmrecht in der Fakultät hat, sondern nur als Delegierter oder Fachvertreter in der Fakultät agiert
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- The one correct German spelling is A-U-S-S-E-R-O-R-D-E-N-T-L-I-C-H-E-R- -P-R-O-F-E-S-S-O-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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