elfjähriger
[ˈɛlfˌjɛːʁɪɡɐ]
The verdict
“elfjähriger” is uncommon German (frequency #76,712 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,712
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs elfjährig
Corpus desk
Index DE-elfjahriger · elfjähriger · German
elfjähriger · rank #76,712 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,712
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH elevator
Nearest frequency peer: elevator (-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 „elfjähriger“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Elegie
Elegie
23,292 corpus weight
- elevator
elevator
23,290 corpus weight
- elfjähriger
elfjähriger
23,289 corpus weight
- Eloquenz
Eloquenz
23,288 corpus weight
- emanzipierte
emanzipierte
23,287 corpus weight
- engstirnig
engstirnig
23,286 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „elfjähriger“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | elfjähriger |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈɛlfˌjɛːʁɪɡɐ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #76,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „elfjähriger“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
elfjähriger is uncommon German at frequency #76,712 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈɛlfˌjɛːʁɪɡɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
elfjähriger has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is elfjähriger, spelled E-L-F-J-Ä-H-R-I-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs elfjährig
- 2Genitiv Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs elfjährig
- 3Dativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs elfjährig
- 4Genitiv Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs elfjährig
- 5Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs elfjährig
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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