dominierend
[domiˈniːʁənt]
The verdict
“dominierend” is uncommon German (frequency #77,864 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,864
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas maßgeblich bestimmend
Corpus desk
Index DE-dominierend · dominierend · German
dominierend · rank #77,864 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,864
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH divinity
Nearest frequency peer: divinity (-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 „dominierend“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- distributed
distributed
22,140 corpus weight
- divinity
divinity
22,138 corpus weight
- dominierend
dominierend
22,137 corpus weight
- Donauinsel
Donauinsel
22,136 corpus weight
- Doppelkopf
Doppelkopf
22,135 corpus weight
- Dorfschule
Dorfschule
22,134 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „dominierend“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dominierend |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [domiˈniːʁənt] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #77,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „dominierend“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
dominierend is uncommon German at frequency #77,864 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [domiˈniːʁənt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for dominierend in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is dominierend, spelled D-O-M-I-N-I-E-R-E-N-D.
Definition
- 1etwas maßgeblich bestimmend
- 2in der Mehrheit, vor allem
- 3sadistische Handlungen an einem Beteiligten ausführend
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dominierend appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Morteza Mehrzad ist einer der größten Menschen der Erde und der dominierende Sitzvolleyballer seiner Generation.“
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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