drohend
[ˈdʁoːənt]
The verdict
“drohend” is uncommon German (frequency #68,144 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,144
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (als etwas negatives) unmittelbar bevorstehend
Corpus desk
Index DE-drohend · drohend · German
drohend · rank #68,144 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,144
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Dreiviertelst…
Nearest frequency peer: Dreiviertelstunde (-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 „drohend“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- dreimonatig…
dreimonatigen
31,860 corpus weight
- dreitausend
dreitausend
31,859 corpus weight
- Dreiviertel…
Dreiviertelstunde
31,858 corpus weight
- drohend
drohend
31,857 corpus weight
- dumping
dumping
31,855 corpus weight
- dunning
dunning
31,854 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „drohend“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drohend |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈdʁoːənt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,144 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „drohend“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
drohend is uncommon German at frequency #68,144 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈdʁoːənt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(als etwas negatives) unmittelbar bevorstehend".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for drohend, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is drohend, spelled D-R-O-H-E-N-D.
Definition
- 1(als etwas negatives) unmittelbar bevorstehend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how drohend appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Bei einer drohenden Frühgeburt werden z. B. Beta-2-Sympathomimetika zur Muskelrelaxation der Gebärmutter eingesetzt.“
„Gegen Ende des 2. Weltkrieges prägten die Nationalsozialisten angesichts der drohenden Niederlage den Begriff Wunderwaffe und propagierten damit vor allem die siegbringende Wirkung der sogenannten V–Waffen (= »Vergeltungswaffen«).“
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); 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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