Ergonomie
[ˌɛʁɡonoˈmiː]
The verdict
“Ergonomie” is uncommon German (frequency #70,207 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,207
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zweig der Arbeitswissenschaft, der sich mit den Leistungsmöglichkeiten des arbeitenden Menschen befasst und die Technik seiner Arbeit anzupassen versucht
Corpus desk
Index DE-ergonomie · Ergonomie · German
Ergonomie · rank #70,207 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,207
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Erbsünde
Nearest frequency peer: Erbsünde (-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 „Ergonomie“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- entwässert
entwässert
29,797 corpus weight
- Erblindung
Erblindung
29,796 corpus weight
- Erbsünde
Erbsünde
29,795 corpus weight
- Ergonomie
Ergonomie
29,794 corpus weight
- erhärten
erhärten
29,793 corpus weight
- erkundeten
erkundeten
29,792 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Ergonomie“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ergonomie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌɛʁɡonoˈmiː] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Ergonomie“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Ergonomie is uncommon German at frequency #70,207 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˌɛʁɡonoˈmiː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Zweig der Arbeitswissenschaft, der sich mit den Leistungsmöglichkeiten des arbeitenden Menschen befasst und die Technik seiner Arbeit anzupassen versucht".
Ergonomie has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Ergonomie, spelled E-R-G-O-N-O-M-I-E.
Definition
- 1Zweig der Arbeitswissenschaft, der sich mit den Leistungsmöglichkeiten des arbeitenden Menschen befasst und die Technik seiner Arbeit anzupassen versucht
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ergonomie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Benutzungsoberfläche des Macintosh war eine Meisterleistung der Ergonomie.
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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