fatigue
[fa.tiɡ]
The verdict
“fatigue” is uncommon German (frequency #88,912 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,912
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Müdigkeit
Corpus desk
Index DE-fatigue · fatigue · German
fatigue · rank #88,912 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,912
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH fauchen
Nearest frequency peer: fauchen (+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 „fatigue“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Fallingbost…
Fallingbostel
11,095 corpus weight
- Familienthe…
Familientherapie
11,093 corpus weight
- fatigue
fatigue
11,089 corpus weight
- fauchen
fauchen
11,088 corpus weight
- fehlschlagen
fehlschlagen
11,087 corpus weight
- Fesselung
Fesselung
11,085 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „fatigue“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fatigue |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fa.tiɡ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „fatigue“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
fatigue is uncommon German at frequency #88,912 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [fa.tiɡ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Müdigkeit".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fatigue, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is fatigue, spelled F-A-T-I-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Müdigkeit
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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