erfinderisch
[ɛɐ̯ˈfɪndəʁɪʃ]
The verdict
“erfinderisch” is uncommon German (frequency #59,604 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,604
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - so, dass man viele Einfälle, neue Ideen und Lösungen hat
Corpus desk
Index DE-erfinderisch · erfinderisch · German
erfinderisch · rank #59,604 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,604
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Erdgeschichte
Nearest frequency peer: Erdgeschichte (-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 „erfinderisch“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- erblühen
erblühen
40,399 corpus weight
- Erdgeschich…
Erdgeschichte
40,398 corpus weight
- erfinderisch
erfinderisch
40,397 corpus weight
- Ergotherapie
Ergotherapie
40,396 corpus weight
- erkoren
erkoren
40,395 corpus weight
- erlen
erlen
40,394 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „erfinderisch“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | erfinderisch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɛɐ̯ˈfɪndəʁɪʃ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #59,604 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „erfinderisch“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
erfinderisch is uncommon German at frequency #59,604 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ɛɐ̯ˈfɪndəʁɪʃ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "so, dass man viele Einfälle, neue Ideen und Lösungen hat".
erfinderisch has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is erfinderisch, spelled E-R-F-I-N-D-E-R-I-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1so, dass man viele Einfälle, neue Ideen und Lösungen hat
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how erfinderisch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Neu und erfinderisch muss die Erfindung also hinsichtlich technischer Merkmale sein.“
„Doch wir sind durchaus in der Lage, erfinderisch zu sein, wenn wir mit einem Problem konfrontiert sind, das so drängend ist, dass wir es lösen müssen.“
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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