Emigrant
[emiˈɡʁant]
The verdict
“Emigrant” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. 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) - Auswanderer, besonders aus politischen oder religiösen Gründen
Corpus desk
Index DE-emigrant · Emigrant · German
Emigrant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | Emigrant |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [emiˈɡʁant] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Emigrant“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Emigrant is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [emiˈɡʁant]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Auswanderer, besonders aus politischen oder religiösen Gründen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Emigrant, 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 no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Emigrant, spelled E-M-I-G-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Auswanderer, besonders aus politischen oder religiösen Gründen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Emigrant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Viele Emigranten verlassen jedes Jahr Deutschland.
„Noch kann sie nicht nachempfinden, was es heißt, Emigrant zu sein, ein Heimatloser unter lauter Inländern.“
Synonyms
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.