Entrepreneur
[ɑ̃tʁəpʁəˈnøːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Entrepreneur” is an uncommon German word, ranked #73,438 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #73,438
- frequency rank, German
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Unternehmer, der meist mit einer innovativen Idee seine Firma begründet hat
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Entrepreneur |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɑ̃tʁəpʁəˈnøːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #73,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Entrepreneur” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Entrepreneur is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɑ̃tʁəpʁəˈnøːɐ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #73,438 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Unternehmer, der meist mit einer innovativen Idee seine Firma begründet hat".
Zero misspellings are on record for Entrepreneur in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Entrepreneur, spelled E-N-T-R-E-P-R-E-N-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Unternehmer, der meist mit einer innovativen Idee seine Firma begründet hat
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); 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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Using “Entrepreneur”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is E-N-T-R-E-P-R-E-N-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ɑ̃tʁəpʁəˈnøːɐ̯] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.