comprehensive
[kɒmpɹɪˈhɛnsɪv]
The verdict
“comprehensive” is uncommon German (frequency #91,441 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,441
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - inhaltsreich, reichhaltig, umfangreich, umfassend
Corpus desk
Index DE-comprehensive · comprehensive · German
comprehensive · rank #91,441 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,441
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH confused
Nearest frequency peer: confused (+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 „comprehensive“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- classique
classique
8,563 corpus weight
- comprehensi…
comprehensive
8,560 corpus weight
- confused
confused
8,559 corpus weight
- cougars
cougars
8,558 corpus weight
- covert
covert
8,556 corpus weight
- Crosstrainer
Crosstrainer
8,555 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „comprehensive“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comprehensive |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [kɒmpɹɪˈhɛnsɪv] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #91,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „comprehensive“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
comprehensive is uncommon German at frequency #91,441 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [kɒmpɹɪˈhɛnsɪv]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "inhaltsreich, reichhaltig, umfangreich, umfassend".
No misspelling variants are generated for comprehensive in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is comprehensive, spelled C-O-M-P-R-E-H-E-N-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1inhaltsreich, reichhaltig, umfangreich, umfassend
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how comprehensive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Unlike final examinations, comprehensive examinations are not linked to any particular course, but rather test knowledge across one or more general fields of study.“
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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