impatience
[ɪmˈpeɪʃən(t)s]
The verdict
“impatience” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ungeduld
Corpus desk
Index DE-impatience · impatience · German
impatience · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impatience |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɪmˈpeɪʃən(t)s] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „impatience“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
impatience is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɪmˈpeɪʃən(t)s]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for impatience in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is impatience, spelled I-M-P-A-T-I-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Ungeduld
- 2Abneigung
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.