ignore
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The verdict
“ignore” is uncommon German (frequency #93,094 among 1,488 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,094
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (mit Absicht) nicht beachten, nicht berücksichtigen, ignorieren
Corpus desk
Index DE-ignore · ignore · German
ignore · rank #93,094 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,094
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH IgG
Nearest frequency peer: IgG (-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 „ignore“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- iberische
iberische
6,911 corpus weight
- IgG
IgG
6,908 corpus weight
- ignore
ignore
6,907 corpus weight
- iis
iis
6,906 corpus weight
- Ikon
Ikon
6,905 corpus weight
- Illustrator…
Illustratoren
6,904 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „ignore“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ignore |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,094 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „ignore“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
ignore is uncommon German at frequency #93,094 among 1,488 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(mit Absicht) nicht beachten, nicht berücksichtigen, ignorieren".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ignore in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is ignore, spelled I-G-N-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1(mit Absicht) nicht beachten, nicht berücksichtigen, ignorieren
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ignore appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
When he behaves badly, you must ignore him.
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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