drunk
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The verdict
“drunk” is uncommon German (frequency #74,497 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,497
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - betrunken
Corpus desk
Index DE-drunk · drunk · German
drunk · rank #74,497 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,497
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH drogenabhängig
Nearest frequency peer: drogenabhängig (-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 „drunk“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- drinking
drinking
25,508 corpus weight
- droben
droben
25,506 corpus weight
- drogenabhän…
drogenabhängig
25,505 corpus weight
- drunk
drunk
25,504 corpus weight
- drückend
drückend
25,503 corpus weight
- durchgefahr…
durchgefahren
25,501 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „drunk“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drunk |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,497 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „drunk“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
drunk is uncommon German at frequency #74,497 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "betrunken".
drunk has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 drunk, spelled D-R-U-N-K.
Definition
- 1betrunken
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how drunk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
His brother is drunk everyday.
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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