exorbitant
[ɛksʔɔʁbiˈtant]
The verdict
“exorbitant” is uncommon German (frequency #63,289 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,289
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gewaltig, außerhalb der Maßstäbe, außergewöhnlich, enorm
Corpus desk
Index DE-exorbitant · exorbitant · German
exorbitant · rank #63,289 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,289
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH exotisches
Nearest frequency peer: exotisches (+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 „exorbitant“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- erzittern
erzittern
36,716 corpus weight
- exorbitant
exorbitant
36,712 corpus weight
- exotisches
exotisches
36,711 corpus weight
- experimenti…
experimentierte
36,710 corpus weight
- facebooks
facebooks
36,709 corpus weight
- Fachartikel
Fachartikel
36,708 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „exorbitant“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exorbitant |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɛksʔɔʁbiˈtant] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #63,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „exorbitant“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
exorbitant is uncommon German at frequency #63,289 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ɛksʔɔʁbiˈtant]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "gewaltig, außerhalb der Maßstäbe, außergewöhnlich, enorm".
exorbitant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists 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 exorbitant, spelled E-X-O-R-B-I-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1gewaltig, außerhalb der Maßstäbe, außergewöhnlich, enorm
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how exorbitant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Preise für Original-Tintenpatronen sind exorbitant.
„Er vierzig, sie zwanzig. Er, der vielbeschäftigte Anwalt mit einem für diesen Beruf exorbitant hohen Einkommen, sie ein armes Tippmädel, aus kleinem jüdischen Haus, das eben durch Protektion in seiner Kanzlei untergekommen war.“
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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