imposant
[ɪmpoˈzant]
The verdict
“imposant” is uncommon German (frequency #57,118 among 1,488 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,118
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - durch seine Abmessungen einen starken Eindruck, Respekt oder Bewunderung bei jemandem hinterlassend
Corpus desk
Index DE-imposant · imposant · German
imposant · rank #57,118 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,118
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH Illertissen
Nearest frequency peer: Illertissen (-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 „imposant“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Idealist
Idealist
42,889 corpus weight
- ident
ident
42,888 corpus weight
- Illertissen
Illertissen
42,884 corpus weight
- imposant
imposant
42,883 corpus weight
- Impotenz
Impotenz
42,882 corpus weight
- Information…
Informationsveranstaltungen
42,879 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „imposant“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imposant |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɪmpoˈzant] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „imposant“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
imposant is uncommon German at frequency #57,118 among 1,488 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ɪmpoˈzant]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "durch seine Abmessungen einen starken Eindruck, Respekt oder Bewunderung bei jemandem hinterlassend".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for imposant, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is imposant, spelled I-M-P-O-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1durch seine Abmessungen einen starken Eindruck, Respekt oder Bewunderung bei jemandem hinterlassend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how imposant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Pyramiden von Gizeh sind so imposant, einfach unglaublich, wie haben die Ägypter die damals nur gebaut?“
„Ich habe noch nie einen derart imposanten Ringer gesehen, 2,10 Meter groß, 130 kg schwer und dabei scheinbar nur aus Muskeln bestehend.“
This word in other languages
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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