Entsagung
[ɛntˈzaːɡʊŋ]
The verdict
“Entsagung” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gewollter oder auch ungewollter Verzicht auf etwas
Corpus desk
Index DE-entsagung · Entsagung · German
Entsagung · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Entsagung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛntˈzaːɡʊŋ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Entsagung“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Entsagung is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɛntˈzaːɡʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "gewollter oder auch ungewollter Verzicht auf etwas".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Entsagung, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Entsagung, spelled E-N-T-S-A-G-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1gewollter oder auch ungewollter Verzicht auf etwas
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Entsagung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Diese Generation war gekennzeichnet durch Rohheit infolge der Entsagungen während des Krieges.
„Das war eine Gegnerin, die mir gegenüberstand; und daß ich hinter Sophies Entsagung immer Haß gewittert hatte, zeigte mir wenigstens, wie hellsichtig ich war.“
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.