commitment
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The verdict
“commitment” is uncommon German (frequency #69,103 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,103
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas, dass man tun muss; Zusage, die man gegeben hat: Verpflichtung
Corpus desk
Index DE-commitment · commitment · German
commitment · rank #69,103 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,103
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH coma
Nearest frequency peer: coma (-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 „commitment“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- christlichem
christlichem
30,903 corpus weight
- cinque
cinque
30,902 corpus weight
- coma
coma
30,899 corpus weight
- commitment
commitment
30,898 corpus weight
- continuo
continuo
30,895 corpus weight
- cornet
cornet
30,894 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „commitment“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commitment |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „commitment“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
commitment is uncommon German at frequency #69,103 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for commitment, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is commitment, spelled C-O-M-M-I-T-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1etwas, dass man tun muss; Zusage, die man gegeben hat: Verpflichtung
- 2persönliche Verbundenheit, Unterstützung, positive (Arbeits)einstellung: Engagement, Einsatz, Einsatzvermögen
- 3Veranlassung eines Aufenthaltes in einem Krankenhaus, Heim, Gefängnis, einer Psychiatrie: Einweisung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how commitment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He's got a lot of commitments.
“Hillary's appointment is a sign to friend and foe of the seriousness of my commitment to renew American diplomacy and restore our alliances.”
Synonyms
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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