Demotivierung
[demotiˈviːʁʊŋ]
The verdict
“Demotivierung” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - allgemein: Verlust, Verringerung des Eigenantriebs, der Motivation bei einer oder mehreren Personen
Corpus desk
Index DE-demotivierung · Demotivierung · German
Demotivierung · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Demotivierung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [demotiˈviːʁʊŋ] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Demotivierung“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Demotivierung is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [demotiˈviːʁʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Demotivierung has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Demotivierung, spelled D-E-M-O-T-I-V-I-E-R-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1allgemein: Verlust, Verringerung des Eigenantriebs, der Motivation bei einer oder mehreren Personen
- 2Prozess und Ergebnis von Bedeutungswandel, die dazu führen, dass die Bedeutung eines Wortes nicht mehr aus der Bedeutung seiner Bestandteile (Konstituenten) erschlossen werden kann.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Demotivierung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ständige Misserfolge können Demotivierung bewirken.
Demotivierung liegt bei Wörtern wie "ver-letz-en", "ver-lier-en", "ge-winn-en" vor, deren Wortstämme "letz", "lier", "winn" für sich allein keine erkennbare Bedeutung haben.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.