extraterrestrisch
[ɛkstʁatɛˈʁɛstʁɪʃ]
The verdict
“extraterrestrisch” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - außerhalb der Erdoberfläche im Weltraum befindlich
Corpus desk
Index DE-extraterrestrisch · extraterrestrisch · German
extraterrestrisch · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | extraterrestrisch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɛkstʁatɛˈʁɛstʁɪʃ] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „extraterrestrisch“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
extraterrestrisch is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ɛkstʁatɛˈʁɛstʁɪʃ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
extraterrestrisch has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 extraterrestrisch, spelled E-X-T-R-A-T-E-R-R-E-S-T-R-I-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1außerhalb der Erdoberfläche im Weltraum befindlich
- 2außerirdisch als Lebensform; nicht von der Erde oder außerirdischen Ursprungs
- 3als geologische Aktivität der Erde außerirdischem Ursprung zugeordnet
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how extraterrestrisch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Weltraumsatelliten sind extraterrestrisch.
(übertragen) „[…] Entwurzelte, denen Bürgerrechte auf dem Boden der Neuen Welt nicht zugestanden wurden, mussten sich als extraterrestrisch respektive submarin definieren. […]“
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.