grantig
[ˈɡʁantɪç]
The verdict
“grantig” is uncommon German (frequency #65,299 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,299
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - schlecht gelaunt, schlecht aufgelegt, in mieser, gereizter Stimmung und auch unhöflich
Corpus desk
Index DE-grantig · grantig · German
grantig · rank #65,299 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,299
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH grausigen
Nearest frequency peer: grausigen (+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 „grantig“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Glühwürmchen
Glühwürmchen
34,706 corpus weight
- Goldmünze
Goldmünze
34,705 corpus weight
- grandes
grandes
34,704 corpus weight
- grantig
grantig
34,702 corpus weight
- grausigen
grausigen
34,701 corpus weight
- grenzender
grenzender
34,699 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „grantig“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grantig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈɡʁantɪç] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „grantig“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
grantig is uncommon German at frequency #65,299 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈɡʁantɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "schlecht gelaunt, schlecht aufgelegt, in mieser, gereizter Stimmung und auch unhöflich".
Zero misspellings are on record for grantig in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is grantig, spelled G-R-A-N-T-I-G.
Definition
- 1schlecht gelaunt, schlecht aufgelegt, in mieser, gereizter Stimmung und auch unhöflich
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grantig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Opa ist jetzt auch Fanclubmitglied und kann richtig grantig werden, wenn jemand etwas Unfreundliches über Yvonne Catterfeld sagt.“
Unsere Nachbarin ist eine grantige alte Witwe, der man nichts recht machen kann.
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.
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