grumpy
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The verdict
“grumpy” is uncommon German (frequency #63,389 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,389
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mürrisch, reizbar, verdrießlich
Corpus desk
Index DE-grumpy · grumpy · German
grumpy · rank #63,389 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,389
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Grundschulalt…
Nearest frequency peer: Grundschulalter (+2 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 „grumpy“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Groupies
Groupies
36,615 corpus weight
- grumpy
grumpy
36,612 corpus weight
- Grundschula…
Grundschulalter
36,610 corpus weight
- Gruppenspie…
Gruppenspielen
36,609 corpus weight
- gängiges
gängiges
36,608 corpus weight
- Habilitatio…
Habilitationsschrift
36,607 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „grumpy“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grumpy |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „grumpy“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
grumpy is uncommon German at frequency #63,389 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mürrisch, reizbar, verdrießlich".
No misspelling variants are generated for grumpy in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is grumpy, spelled G-R-U-M-P-Y.
Definition
- 1mürrisch, reizbar, verdrießlich
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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