egozentrisch
[eɡoˈt͡sɛntʁɪʃ]
The verdict
“egozentrisch” is uncommon German (frequency #77,877 among 57,060 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,877
- frequency rank, German
- 57,060
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (nur) an sich denkend; sich selbst im Mittelpunkt sehend; egozentrisch ist eine Person, die alle Ereignisse nur von ihrem Standpunkt aus bewertet
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | egozentrisch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [eɡoˈt͡sɛntʁɪʃ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #77,877 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “egozentrisch” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
egozentrisch is uncommon German at frequency #77,877 among 57,060 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [eɡoˈt͡sɛntʁɪʃ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(nur) an sich denkend; sich selbst im Mittelpunkt sehend; egozentrisch ist eine Person, die alle Ereignisse nur von ihrem Standpunkt aus bewertet".
egozentrisch has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is egozentrisch, spelled E-G-O-Z-E-N-T-R-I-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1(nur) an sich denkend; sich selbst im Mittelpunkt sehend; egozentrisch ist eine Person, die alle Ereignisse nur von ihrem Standpunkt aus bewertet
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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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Using “egozentrisch”
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- The one correct German spelling is E-G-O-Z-E-N-T-R-I-S-C-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.