exorbitant
[ɛksʔɔʁbiˈtant]
The verdict
“exorbitant” is an uncommon German word, ranked #63,289 in German word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #63,289
- frequency rank, German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - gewaltig, außerhalb der Maßstäbe, außergewöhnlich, enorm
| 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) |
Where “exorbitant” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for exorbitant is 10 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɛksʔɔʁbiˈtant]. Corpus data places it at rank #63,289 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
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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Using “exorbitant”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is E-X-O-R-B-I-T-A-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ɛksʔɔʁbiˈtant] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.