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

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „ignore“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for ignore
PropertyValue
Headwordignore
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[…]
Letters6
Frequency rank#93,094
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „ignore“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).ignorefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „IgG“ (#93,093), „iis“ (#93,095), „Ikon“ (#93,096). Unter 1,488 „I“-Lemmata liegt „ignore“ bei #93,094. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how ignore appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

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.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ignore", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list