Erwerbslose
[ɛɐ̯ˈvɛʁpsloːzə]
The verdict
“Erwerbslose” is uncommon German (frequency #69,192 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,192
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - weibliche Person ohne eine bezahlte, berufliche Tätigkeit
Corpus desk
Index DE-erwerbslose · Erwerbslose · German
Erwerbslose · rank #69,192 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,192
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH erzieherischen
Nearest frequency peer: erzieherischen (+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 „Erwerbslose“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- erschöpften
erschöpften
30,812 corpus weight
- erstaunte
erstaunte
30,811 corpus weight
- Erwerbslose
Erwerbslose
30,809 corpus weight
- erzieherisc…
erzieherischen
30,808 corpus weight
- especially
especially
30,807 corpus weight
- essbaren
essbaren
30,806 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Erwerbslose“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Erwerbslose |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛɐ̯ˈvɛʁpsloːzə] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #69,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Erwerbslose“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Erwerbslose is uncommon German at frequency #69,192 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɛɐ̯ˈvɛʁpsloːzə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "weibliche Person ohne eine bezahlte, berufliche Tätigkeit".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Erwerbslose in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Erwerbslose, spelled E-R-W-E-R-B-S-L-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1weibliche Person ohne eine bezahlte, berufliche Tätigkeit
Antonyms
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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