Ethos
[ˈeːtɔs]
The verdict
“Ethos” is uncommon German (frequency #53,666 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,666
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gesamthaltung im Hinblick auf sittliche Werte
Corpus desk
Index DE-ethos · Ethos · German
Ethos · rank #53,666 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,666
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH essentiellen
Nearest frequency peer: essentiellen (-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 „Ethos“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- erwirtschaf…
erwirtschafteten
46,338 corpus weight
- ESG
ESG
46,337 corpus weight
- essentiellen
essentiellen
46,336 corpus weight
- Ethos
Ethos
46,335 corpus weight
- Europawahlen
Europawahlen
46,333 corpus weight
- extremistis…
extremistischen
46,332 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Ethos“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ethos |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈeːtɔs] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Ethos“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Ethos is uncommon German at frequency #53,666 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈeːtɔs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gesamthaltung im Hinblick auf sittliche Werte".
Ethos doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Ethos, spelled E-T-H-O-S.
Definition
- 1Gesamthaltung im Hinblick auf sittliche Werte
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ethos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Mitgliedstaaten können in Bezug auf berufliche Tätigkeiten innerhalb von Kirchen und anderen öffentlichen oder privaten Organisationen, deren Ethos auf religiösen Grundsätzen oder Weltanschauungen beruht, Bestimmungen in ihren zum Zeitpunkt der Annahme dieser Richtlinie geltenden Rechtsvorschriften beibehalten oder in künftigen Rechtsvorschriften Bes…
„Das Ethos der neuen Methode ging von den Forschern auf die Allgemeinheit über und wurde von ihr aufgenommen, auch wenn die wissenschaftlichen Einzelheiten nur ungefähr verstanden wurden.“
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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