curious

[ˈkjʊ(ə)rɪəs]

/[ˈkjʊ(ə)rɪəs]/ adj

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The verdict

“curious” is uncommon German (frequency #81,407 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#81,407
frequency rank, German
1,273
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - erkennbar interessiert

Corpus desk

Index DE-curious · curious · German

curious · rank #81,407 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #81,407
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,273
  • PHOTO-FINISH cumming

Nearest frequency peer: cumming (-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 „curious“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „curious“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for curious
PropertyValue
Headwordcurious
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[ˈkjʊ(ə)rɪəs]
Letters7
Frequency rank#81,407
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „curious“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).curiousfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „cumming“ (#81,406), „Computerprogramme“ (#81,402), „combined“ (#81,401). Unter 1,273 „C“-Lemmata liegt „curious“ bei #81,407. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

curious is uncommon German at frequency #81,407 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈkjʊ(ə)rɪəs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for curious, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 curious, spelled C-U-R-I-O-U-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    erkennbar interessiert
  2. 2
    bemerkenswert unüblich

This word in other languages

curieux(Français)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "curious"?
"curious" is spelled C-U-R-I-O-U-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈkjʊ(ə)rɪəs].
What does "curious" mean?
As an adjective, "curious" means: erkennbar interessiert
How do you pronounce "curious"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "curious" is [ˈkjʊ(ə)rɪəs]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "curious" come from?
"curious" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "curious", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

cumming#81,406Defekts#81,416dehnbar#81,420charmed#81,393

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list