folgenschwer
[ˈfɔlɡn̩ˌʃveːɐ̯]
The verdict
“folgenschwer” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - schwere, schwerwiegende (meist im negativen Sinn) Folgen habend, folgenreich seiend, schicksalhaft schwer seiend, stark negativ seiend
Corpus desk
Index DE-folgenschwer · folgenschwer · German
folgenschwer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" 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 | folgenschwer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈfɔlɡn̩ˌʃveːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „folgenschwer“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
folgenschwer is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈfɔlɡn̩ˌʃveːɐ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "schwere, schwerwiegende (meist im negativen Sinn) Folgen habend, folgenreich seiend, schicksalhaft schwer seiend, stark negativ seiend".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for folgenschwer, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 folgenschwer, spelled F-O-L-G-E-N-S-C-H-W-E-R.
Definition
- 1schwere, schwerwiegende (meist im negativen Sinn) Folgen habend, folgenreich seiend, schicksalhaft schwer seiend, stark negativ seiend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how folgenschwer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In der aktuellen Weltpolitik werden heutzutage möglicherweise folgenschwere Entscheidungen getroffen.
„Hinter dem 82. Breitengrad widerfuhr ihnen ein folgenschweres Unglück.“
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.