engstirnig
[ˈɛŋˌʃtɪʁnɪç]
The verdict
“engstirnig” is uncommon German (frequency #76,715 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,715
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in seiner Auffassung mit einem sehr kleinen (engen) Gesichtswinkel geschlagen
Corpus desk
Index DE-engstirnig · engstirnig · German
engstirnig · rank #76,715 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,715
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH emanzipierte
Nearest frequency peer: emanzipierte (-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 „engstirnig“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- elfjähriger
elfjähriger
23,289 corpus weight
- Eloquenz
Eloquenz
23,288 corpus weight
- emanzipierte
emanzipierte
23,287 corpus weight
- engstirnig
engstirnig
23,286 corpus weight
- entgangenen
entgangenen
23,284 corpus weight
- entstünden
entstünden
23,283 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „engstirnig“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engstirnig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈɛŋˌʃtɪʁnɪç] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #76,715 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „engstirnig“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
engstirnig is uncommon German at frequency #76,715 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈɛŋˌʃtɪʁnɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "in seiner Auffassung mit einem sehr kleinen (engen) Gesichtswinkel geschlagen".
No generated misspelling entries exist for engstirnig in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is engstirnig, spelled E-N-G-S-T-I-R-N-I-G.
Definition
- 1in seiner Auffassung mit einem sehr kleinen (engen) Gesichtswinkel geschlagen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how engstirnig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Engstirnig beharrte sie darauf, dass eine berufstätige Frau immer zu einer Rabenmutter werden müsse.
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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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