diligence
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The verdict
“diligence” is uncommon German (frequency #80,249 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,249
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Eifer, Sorgfalt, Fleiß
Corpus desk
Index DE-diligence · diligence · German
diligence · rank #80,249 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,249
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH disorder
Nearest frequency peer: disorder (+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 „diligence“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- demenzkranke
demenzkranke
19,757 corpus weight
- Demmin
Demmin
19,756 corpus weight
- diligence
diligence
19,752 corpus weight
- disorder
disorder
19,751 corpus weight
- doller
doller
19,749 corpus weight
- Doppelbelas…
Doppelbelastung
19,747 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „diligence“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diligence |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „diligence“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
diligence is uncommon German at frequency #80,249 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Eifer, Sorgfalt, Fleiß".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for diligence, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is diligence, spelled D-I-L-I-G-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Eifer, Sorgfalt, Fleiß
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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