Berufsunfähigkeit
[bəˈʁuːfsʔʊnˌfɛːɪçkaɪ̯t]
The verdict
“Berufsunfähigkeit” is uncommon German (frequency #54,375 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,375
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die meist krankheits- oder unfallbedingte Unfähigkeit einem Beruf nachzugehen
Corpus desk
Index DE-berufsunfahigkeit · Berufsunfähigkeit · German
Berufsunfähigkeit · rank #54,375 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,375
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH beruhe
Nearest frequency peer: beruhe (+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 „Berufsunfähigkeit“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Berlinerin
Berlinerin
45,630 corpus weight
- Berufsalltag
Berufsalltag
45,628 corpus weight
- Berufsunfäh…
Berufsunfähigkeit
45,626 corpus weight
- beruhe
beruhe
45,625 corpus weight
- Beruhigungs…
Beruhigungsmittel
45,624 corpus weight
- berührenden
berührenden
45,623 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Berufsunfähigkeit“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Berufsunfähigkeit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bəˈʁuːfsʔʊnˌfɛːɪçkaɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Frequency rank | #54,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Berufsunfähigkeit“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Berufsunfähigkeit is uncommon German at frequency #54,375 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [bəˈʁuːfsʔʊnˌfɛːɪçkaɪ̯t]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "die meist krankheits- oder unfallbedingte Unfähigkeit einem Beruf nachzugehen".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Berufsunfähigkeit, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Berufsunfähigkeit, spelled B-E-R-U-F-S-U-N-F-Ä-H-I-G-K-E-I-T.
Definition
- 1die meist krankheits- oder unfallbedingte Unfähigkeit einem Beruf nachzugehen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Berufsunfähigkeit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Seine Berufsunfähigkeit machte ihn depressiv.
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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