ehrwürdiger
[ˈeːɐ̯ˌvʏʁdɪɡɐ]
The verdict
“ehrwürdiger” is uncommon German (frequency #77,879 among 57,060 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,879
- frequency rank, German
- 57,060
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs ehrwürdig
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ehrwürdiger |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈeːɐ̯ˌvʏʁdɪɡɐ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #77,879 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ehrwürdiger” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
ehrwürdiger is uncommon German at frequency #77,879 among 57,060 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈeːɐ̯ˌvʏʁdɪɡɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
ehrwürdiger has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 ehrwürdiger, spelled E-H-R-W-Ü-R-D-I-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs ehrwürdig
- 2Genitiv Singular Femininum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs ehrwürdig
- 3Dativ Singular Femininum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs ehrwürdig
- 4Genitiv Plural alle Genera der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs ehrwürdig
- 5Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs ehrwürdig
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 “ehrwürdiger”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is E-H-R-W-Ü-R-D-I-G-E-R - 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.