enigma
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The verdict
“enigma” is uncommon German (frequency #65,162 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,162
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rätsel, Enigma
Corpus desk
Index DE-enigma · enigma · German
enigma · rank #65,162 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,162
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Engelbrecht
Nearest frequency peer: Engelbrecht (-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 „enigma“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Endzone
Endzone
34,842 corpus weight
- engagiertes
engagiertes
34,841 corpus weight
- Engelbrecht
Engelbrecht
34,840 corpus weight
- enigma
enigma
34,839 corpus weight
- Enkeltochter
Enkeltochter
34,838 corpus weight
- entbindet
entbindet
34,837 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „enigma“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enigma |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,162 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „enigma“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
enigma is uncommon German at frequency #65,162 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rätsel, Enigma".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for enigma, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 enigma, spelled E-N-I-G-M-A.
Definition
- 1Rätsel, Enigma
Synonyms
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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