feig
[faɪ̯k]
The verdict
“feig” is uncommon German (frequency #81,532 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,532
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ohne Mut, sich von Angst vor Gefahr leiten lassen
Corpus desk
Index DE-feig · feig · German
feig · rank #81,532 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,532
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Fanal
Nearest frequency peer: Fanal (-4 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 „feig“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- fahrbare
fahrbare
18,475 corpus weight
- Falschaussa…
Falschaussagen
18,474 corpus weight
- Fanal
Fanal
18,473 corpus weight
- feig
feig
18,469 corpus weight
- Fettverbren…
Fettverbrennung
18,465 corpus weight
- Filmszene
Filmszene
18,464 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „feig“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [faɪ̯k] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #81,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „feig“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
feig is uncommon German at frequency #81,532 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [faɪ̯k]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for feig, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is feig, spelled F-E-I-G.
Definition
- 1ohne Mut, sich von Angst vor Gefahr leiten lassen
- 2gemein, hinterhältig
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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