fanatisch
[faˈnaːtɪʃ]
The verdict
“fanatisch” is uncommon German (frequency #65,192 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,192
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ereifert, sich überschwänglich einsetzend, rasend
Corpus desk
Index DE-fanatisch · fanatisch · German
fanatisch · rank #65,192 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,192
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Feelings
Nearest frequency peer: Feelings (+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 „fanatisch“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- fahrbaren
fahrbaren
34,812 corpus weight
- Fahrweg
Fahrweg
34,811 corpus weight
- fanatisch
fanatisch
34,809 corpus weight
- Feelings
Feelings
34,808 corpus weight
- fehlerfreie
fehlerfreie
34,807 corpus weight
- Fehlerquell…
Fehlerquellen
34,806 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „fanatisch“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fanatisch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [faˈnaːtɪʃ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „fanatisch“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
fanatisch is uncommon German at frequency #65,192 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [faˈnaːtɪʃ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ereifert, sich überschwänglich einsetzend, rasend".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fanatisch, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is fanatisch, spelled F-A-N-A-T-I-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1ereifert, sich überschwänglich einsetzend, rasend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fanatisch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er ist ein fanatischer Katholik.
„Die Tatsache, dass ein fanatischer Hindu Mahatma Gandhi, der sich für eine gerechte Aufteilung der Staatskasse zwischen beiden Ländern eingesetzt hatte, 1948 ermordete, zeigt, wie rasch sich die Fronten verhärtet hatten.“
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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