importance
[ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃s]
The verdict
“importance” is uncommon German (frequency #97,175 among 1,488 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,175
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wichtigkeit
Corpus desk
Index DE-importance · importance · German
importance · rank #97,175 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,175
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH illegitimen
Nearest frequency peer: illegitimen (-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 „importance“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- idyllischer
idyllischer
2,829 corpus weight
- ignis
ignis
2,828 corpus weight
- illegitimen
illegitimen
2,827 corpus weight
- importance
importance
2,826 corpus weight
- indischem
indischem
2,824 corpus weight
- Indiskretion
Indiskretion
2,823 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „importance“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | importance |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃s] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „importance“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
importance is uncommon German at frequency #97,175 among 1,488 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃s]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Wichtigkeit".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for importance, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 importance, spelled I-M-P-O-R-T-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Wichtigkeit
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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