grausig
[ˈɡʁaʊ̯zɪç]
The verdict
“grausig” is uncommon German (frequency #63,381 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,381
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grausen auslösend; entsetzlich
Corpus desk
Index DE-grausig · grausig · German
grausig · rank #63,381 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,381
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Granulat
Nearest frequency peer: Granulat (-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 „grausig“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Grafikdesign
Grafikdesign
36,623 corpus weight
- Granatapfel
Granatapfel
36,622 corpus weight
- Granulat
Granulat
36,621 corpus weight
- grausig
grausig
36,620 corpus weight
- Greise
Greise
36,619 corpus weight
- grillt
grillt
36,618 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „grausig“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grausig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈɡʁaʊ̯zɪç] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,381 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „grausig“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
grausig is uncommon German at frequency #63,381 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈɡʁaʊ̯zɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
grausig has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is grausig, spelled G-R-A-U-S-I-G.
Definition
- 1Grausen auslösend; entsetzlich
- 2arg, besonders; sehr
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how grausig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In ihrer Nachbarschaft wurde ein grausiger Fund gemacht.
„Über 50 Jahre nach den grausigen Verbrechen ist ein Mann nun sicher, den Killer identifiziert zu haben – es soll sein Vater sein.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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