Dandy
[ˈdɛndi]
The verdict
“Dandy” is uncommon German (frequency #56,048 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,048
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mann, der in extravaganter, betont modischer Aufmachung auftritt
Corpus desk
Index DE-dandy · Dandy · German
Dandy · rank #56,048 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,048
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Cybermobbing
Nearest frequency peer: Cybermobbing (-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 „Dandy“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Consultants
Consultants
43,956 corpus weight
- crux
crux
43,955 corpus weight
- Cybermobbing
Cybermobbing
43,954 corpus weight
- Dandy
Dandy
43,953 corpus weight
- darauffolge…
darauffolgende
43,951 corpus weight
- Defibrillat…
Defibrillator
43,950 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Dandy“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dandy |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈdɛndi] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,048 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Dandy“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Dandy is uncommon German at frequency #56,048 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈdɛndi]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mann, der in extravaganter, betont modischer Aufmachung auftritt".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Dandy in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Dandy, spelled D-A-N-D-Y.
Definition
- 1Mann, der in extravaganter, betont modischer Aufmachung auftritt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Dandy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Lächerlichkeit tötet nicht, aber ist ein wirksames Präventivmittel gegen die latente Verspießerung; der Mut zum Ridiculen: die Waffe des »Dandy«, des Baudelairischen Ritters, …“
„Und was ein richtiger Dandy war, der von der Welt etwas verstand, entschloß sich überhaupt nicht, hineinzugehen, sondern die Sache mehr platonisch zu genießen, als Schauspiel gewissermaßen, von außen, als Zusammenklang, mit der überlegenenen Intelligenz dessen, den die Realität nur als Widerspruch nicht mehr enttäuschen kann.“
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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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