egalitär
[ˌeɡaliˈtɛːɐ̯]
The verdict
“egalitär” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - auf Gleichheit gerichtet, soziale Gleichheit anstrebend
Corpus desk
Index DE-egalitar · egalitär · German
egalitär · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | egalitär |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˌeɡaliˈtɛːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „egalitär“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
egalitär is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˌeɡaliˈtɛːɐ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "auf Gleichheit gerichtet, soziale Gleichheit anstrebend".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for egalitär, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is egalitär, spelled E-G-A-L-I-T-Ä-R.
Definition
- 1auf Gleichheit gerichtet, soziale Gleichheit anstrebend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how egalitär appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In manchen politischen Strömungen herrschen egalitäre Bestrebungen.
„Selbst in den egalitärsten Gesellschaften beeinflussen Alter und Geschlecht - Kriterien, die selbst kaum verändert werden können - die kulturellen Interpretationen und die Rollen, Positionen und Lebensläufe der Personen.“
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.