grammatikalisch

[ɡʁamatiˈkaːlɪʃ]

/[ɡʁamatiˈkaːlɪʃ]/ adj

The verdict

“grammatikalisch” is uncommon German (frequency #61,567 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#61,567
frequency rank, German
5,117
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Grammatik betreffend, sich auf sie beziehend (= die Sprachlehre betreffend)

Corpus desk

Index DE-grammatikalisch · grammatikalisch · German

grammatikalisch · rank #61,567 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #61,567
  • LEN-MEGA 15 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,117
  • PHOTO-FINISH gottverdammte

Nearest frequency peer: gottverdammte (-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 „grammatikalisch“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for grammatikalisch
PropertyValue
Headwordgrammatikalisch
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[ɡʁamatiˈkaːlɪʃ]
Letters15
Frequency rank#61,567
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „grammatikalisch“ im Deutschen

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

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

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „gottverdammte“ (#61,566), „grammatische“ (#61,568), „gottlose“ (#61,565). Unter 5,117 „G“-Lemmata liegt „grammatikalisch“ bei #61,567. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

grammatikalisch is uncommon German at frequency #61,567 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ɡʁamatiˈkaːlɪʃ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "die Grammatik betreffend, sich auf sie beziehend (= die Sprachlehre betreffend)".

No generated misspelling entries exist for grammatikalisch in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is grammatikalisch, spelled G-R-A-M-M-A-T-I-K-A-L-I-S-C-H.

Definition

  1. 1
    die Grammatik betreffend, sich auf sie beziehend (= die Sprachlehre betreffend)

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how grammatikalisch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ein ungrammatischer Satz ist grammatikalisch falsch.
  2. „Was die Unabhängigkeit einer Sprache beweise, führt er aus, sei nicht so sehr ihr Wortschatz als vielmehr ihre grammatikalische Struktur.“

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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 "grammatikalisch"?
"grammatikalisch" is spelled G-R-A-M-M-A-T-I-K-A-L-I-S-C-H. The IPA pronunciation is [ɡʁamatiˈkaːlɪʃ].
What does "grammatikalisch" mean?
As an adjective, "grammatikalisch" means: die Grammatik betreffend, sich auf sie beziehend (= die Sprachlehre betreffend)
How do you pronounce "grammatikalisch"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "grammatikalisch" is [ɡʁamatiˈkaːlɪʃ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "grammatikalisch" come from?
"grammatikalisch" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 15 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list