genuine

[ɡenuˈiːnə]

/[ɡenuˈiːnə]/ adj

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The verdict

“genuine” is uncommon German (frequency #99,868 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#99,868
frequency rank, German
5,117
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs genuin

Corpus desk

Index DE-genuine · genuine · German

genuine · rank #99,868 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #99,868
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,117
  • PHOTO-FINISH genickt

Nearest frequency peer: genickt (-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 „genuine“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „genuine“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for genuine
PropertyValue
Headwordgenuine
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[ɡenuˈiːnə]
Letters7
Frequency rank#99,868
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „genuine“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).genuinefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „genickt“ (#99,867), „geometry“ (#99,870), „gepolsterte“ (#99,871). Unter 5,117 „G“-Lemmata liegt „genuine“ bei #99,868. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

genuine is uncommon German at frequency #99,868 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ɡenuˈiːnə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 9 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for genuine, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 genuine, spelled G-E-N-U-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs genuin
  2. 2
    Akkusativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs genuin
  3. 3
    Nominativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs genuin
  4. 4
    Akkusativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs genuin
  5. 5
    Nominativ Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs genuin
  6. 6
    Akkusativ Singular Femininum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs genuin
  7. 7
    Akkusativ Singular Neutrum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs genuin
  8. 8
    Nominativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs genuin
  9. 9
    Akkusativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs genuin

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "genuine"?
"genuine" is spelled G-E-N-U-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ɡenuˈiːnə].
What does "genuine" mean?
As an adjective, "genuine" means: Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs genuin
How do you pronounce "genuine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "genuine" is [ɡenuˈiːnə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "genuine" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "genuine", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

genickt#99,867genetic#99,864gerupft#99,873Gewehrs#99,893

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list