evolutionär
[ˌevolut͡si̯oˈnɛːɐ̯]
The verdict
“evolutionär” is uncommon German (frequency #62,379 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,379
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich langsam und allmählich entwickelnd
Corpus desk
Index DE-evolutionar · evolutionär · German
evolutionär · rank #62,379 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,379
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH essai
Nearest frequency peer: essai (-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 „evolutionär“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- erstreckten
erstreckten
37,625 corpus weight
- Esoteriker
Esoteriker
37,624 corpus weight
- essai
essai
37,623 corpus weight
- evolutionär
evolutionär
37,622 corpus weight
- Exfrau
Exfrau
37,621 corpus weight
- Expertinnen
Expertinnen
37,620 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „evolutionär“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | evolutionär |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˌevolut͡si̯oˈnɛːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #62,379 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „evolutionär“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
evolutionär is uncommon German at frequency #62,379 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˌevolut͡si̯oˈnɛːɐ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for evolutionär, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 evolutionär, spelled E-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N-Ä-R.
Definition
- 1sich langsam und allmählich entwickelnd
- 2auf der Evolution oder der Evolutionstheorie beruhend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how evolutionär appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wir brauchen nicht immer eine Revolution, denn es reicht völlig, wenn wir uns evolutionär entwickeln.
„[…] Hierbei wird richtig auf das Phänomen verwiesen, daß evolutionäre Transformationen relativ (!) rasch verlaufen können und ihnen dann u.U. lange Zeiten ohne größere Veränderungen […] folgen.“
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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