Entrepreneur
[ɑ̃tʁəpʁəˈnøːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Entrepreneur” is uncommon German (frequency #73,438 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,438
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unternehmer, der meist mit einer innovativen Idee seine Firma begründet hat
Corpus desk
Index DE-entrepreneur · Entrepreneur · German
Entrepreneur · rank #73,438 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,438
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Entlastungen
Nearest frequency peer: Entlastungen (-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 „Entrepreneur“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Enoch
Enoch
26,566 corpus weight
- entfesseln
entfesseln
26,565 corpus weight
- Entlastungen
Entlastungen
26,564 corpus weight
- Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
26,563 corpus weight
- entwendete
entwendete
26,562 corpus weight
- epileptisch…
epileptischen
26,561 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Entrepreneur“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Entrepreneur“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Entrepreneur is uncommon German at frequency #73,438 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɑ̃tʁəpʁəˈnøːɐ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Entrepreneur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„lch werde auch bei Etablirung neuer Seidenfabriquen abscheulich betrogen, denn ein dergleichen Entrepreneur hat schon 10.000 Rthlr. Vorschuß bekommen, das Geld durchgebracht, und dem habe Ich die Fabriquen noch einmal etabliren und das Geld noch einmal hergeben müssen, das ist aber höchst unrecht und in keinem Lande üblich.“
„Nachdem der ›klassische Projektemacher‹ als Typus denunziert und in ökonomischen Kontexten vom Entrepreneur abgelöst wird, erlebt der Pläneschmied in Zeiten des Weltverkehrs seine Renaissance.“
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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