ignore

/[…]/ verb

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#93,094

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

ignore is aGermanverb. It means: (mit Absicht) nicht beachten, nicht berücksichtigen, ignorieren Pronounced […].

Key facts for ignore
PropertyValue
Headwordignore
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[…]
Letters6
Frequency rank#93,094
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of ignore in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for ignore is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #93,094 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(mit Absicht) nicht beachten, nicht berücksichtigen, ignorieren".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ignore in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is ignore, spelled I-G-N-O-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (mit Absicht) nicht beachten, nicht berücksichtigen, ignorieren

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #93,094 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ignore"?
"ignore" is spelled I-G-N-O-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "ignore" mean?
As a verb, "ignore" means: (mit Absicht) nicht beachten, nicht berücksichtigen, ignorieren
How do you pronounce "ignore"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ignore" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ignore" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.