Furchtsamkeit
[ˈfʊʁçtzaːmkaɪ̯t]
The verdict
“Furchtsamkeit” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Eigenschaft, furchtsam zu sein
Corpus desk
Index DE-furchtsamkeit · Furchtsamkeit · German
Furchtsamkeit · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | Furchtsamkeit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfʊʁçtzaːmkaɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Furchtsamkeit“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Furchtsamkeit is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈfʊʁçtzaːmkaɪ̯t]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Eigenschaft, furchtsam zu sein".
Furchtsamkeit doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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 borrowing history is documented 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 Furchtsamkeit, spelled F-U-R-C-H-T-S-A-M-K-E-I-T.
Definition
- 1Eigenschaft, furchtsam zu sein
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Furchtsamkeit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Sie ahnen richtig: Seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg – ach was, seit Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts – haben die Deutschen eher das Gegenteil von Führungsqualitäten verinnerlicht: Furchtsamkeit statt Mut, Ausreden erfinden statt Verantwortung übernehmen und sich selber so kleinzumachen, dass keiner da draußen merkt, dass sie da sind.“
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.