entwürdigen
[ɛntˈvʏʁdɪɡn̩]
The verdict
“entwürdigen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemandem oder etwas den innewohnenden oder beigegebenen Wert, die Wertigkeit (die Würde) nehmen
Corpus desk
Index DE-entwurdigen · entwürdigen · German
entwürdigen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | entwürdigen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛntˈvʏʁdɪɡn̩] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „entwürdigen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
entwürdigen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ɛntˈvʏʁdɪɡn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "jemandem oder etwas den innewohnenden oder beigegebenen Wert, die Wertigkeit (die Würde) nehmen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for entwürdigen, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 entwürdigen, spelled E-N-T-W-Ü-R-D-I-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1jemandem oder etwas den innewohnenden oder beigegebenen Wert, die Wertigkeit (die Würde) nehmen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how entwürdigen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lautes Geschrei in einem sakralen Gebäude entwürdigt einen heiligen Ort.
Ein Gesetz, das Quoten bei der Stellenbesetzung festlegt, entwürdigt das Individuum.
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.