drängende

[ˈdʁɛŋəndə]

/[ˈdʁɛŋəndə]/ adj

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The verdict

“drängende” is uncommon German (frequency #75,546 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#75,546
frequency rank, German
2,764
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs drängend

Corpus desk

Index DE-drangende · drängende · German

drängende · rank #75,546 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #75,546
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,764
  • PHOTO-FINISH dunkelhaarige

Nearest frequency peer: dunkelhaarige (+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 „drängende“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for drängende
PropertyValue
Headworddrängende
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[ˈdʁɛŋəndə]
Letters9
Frequency rank#75,546
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „drängende“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).drängendefällt 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: „dunkelhaarige“ (#75,547), „Drittländern“ (#75,544), „Dunstkreis“ (#75,548). Unter 2,764 „D“-Lemmata liegt „drängende“ bei #75,546. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

drängende is uncommon German at frequency #75,546 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈdʁɛŋəndə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 9 senses are on record.

drängende doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 drängende, spelled D-R-Ä-N-G-E-N-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs drängend
  2. 2
    Akkusativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs drängend
  3. 3
    Nominativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs drängend
  4. 4
    Akkusativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs drängend
  5. 5
    Nominativ Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs drängend
  6. 6
    Akkusativ Singular Femininum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs drängend
  7. 7
    Akkusativ Singular Neutrum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs drängend
  8. 8
    Nominativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs drängend
  9. 9
    Akkusativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs drängend

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 "drängende"?
"drängende" is spelled D-R-Ä-N-G-E-N-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈdʁɛŋəndə].
What does "drängende" mean?
As an adjective, "drängende" means: Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs drängend
How do you pronounce "drängende"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "drängende" is [ˈdʁɛŋəndə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "drängende" come from?
"drängende" 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 "drängende", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Einstiegs#75,559Einzeller#75,561Dezernent#75,526entwirren#75,578

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list