erdenklich
[ɛɐ̯ˈdɛŋklɪç]
The verdict
“erdenklich” is uncommon German (frequency #81,504 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,504
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich ausdenken/ersinnen lassend
Corpus desk
Index DE-erdenklich · erdenklich · German
erdenklich · rank #81,504 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,504
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH erfüllend
Nearest frequency peer: erfüllend (+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 „erdenklich“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- entwurzelt
entwurzelt
18,500 corpus weight
- Epsilon
Epsilon
18,499 corpus weight
- erdenklich
erdenklich
18,497 corpus weight
- erfüllend
erfüllend
18,496 corpus weight
- erholten
erholten
18,495 corpus weight
- erloschenen
erloschenen
18,494 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „erdenklich“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | erdenklich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɛɐ̯ˈdɛŋklɪç] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,504 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „erdenklich“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
erdenklich is uncommon German at frequency #81,504 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ɛɐ̯ˈdɛŋklɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sich ausdenken/ersinnen lassend".
Zero misspellings are on record for erdenklich in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is erdenklich, spelled E-R-D-E-N-K-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1sich ausdenken/ersinnen lassend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how erdenklich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Sprache kennt die Grenzen ihrer Kraft, sie weiß, wie weit ihr allzeit der Gedanke voraus ist, und sie gibt sich alle erdenkliche Mühe, um ihn einzuholen.“
„Der Bootsmann fing zwei Seevögel, stutzte ihnen die Flügel und gab sich tagelang die erdenklichste Mühe, sie zu zähmen, in der Hoffnung, sie dahin zu bringen, soweit es in ihrer Fähigkeit lag, die Arbeit des Hausgeflügels – das Eierlegen – zu besorgen, denn den Mangel an Eiern beklagte Mrs. Aleshine beständig.“
Synonyms
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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