empty
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The verdict
“empty” is uncommon German (frequency #69,166 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,166
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (nahezu) ohne Inhalt seiend; leer
Corpus desk
Index DE-empty · empty · German
empty · rank #69,166 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,166
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH empfangene
Nearest frequency peer: empfangene (-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 „empty“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- elk
elk
30,839 corpus weight
- empfangene
empfangene
30,836 corpus weight
- empty
empty
30,835 corpus weight
- Endingen
Endingen
30,834 corpus weight
- Energiemarkt
Energiemarkt
30,833 corpus weight
- Energiemini…
Energieminister
30,832 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „empty“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empty |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „empty“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
empty is uncommon German at frequency #69,166 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(nahezu) ohne Inhalt seiend; leer".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for empty, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is empty, spelled E-M-P-T-Y.
Definition
- 1(nahezu) ohne Inhalt seiend; leer
Antonyms
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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