improvement

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The verdict

“improvement” is uncommon German (frequency #82,909 among 1,488 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#82,909
frequency rank, German
1,488
“I” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Verbesserung

Corpus desk

Index DE-improvement · improvement · German

improvement · rank #82,909 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #82,909
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,488
  • PHOTO-FINISH imkern

Nearest frequency peer: imkern (-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 „improvement“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for improvement
PropertyValue
Headwordimprovement
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters11
Frequency rank#82,909
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „improvement“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.improvementfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „imkern“ (#82,908), „indio“ (#82,910), „Industriezweig“ (#82,911). Unter 1,488 „I“-Lemmata liegt „improvement“ bei #82,909. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

improvement is uncommon German at frequency #82,909 among 1,488 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

improvement doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is improvement, spelled I-M-P-R-O-V-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Verbesserung
  2. 2
    Instruktion

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 "improvement"?
"improvement" is spelled I-M-P-R-O-V-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "improvement" mean?
As a noun, "improvement" means: Verbesserung
How do you pronounce "improvement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "improvement" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "improvement" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Initiatorin#82,915humorvoller#82,896Homöopathen#82,893Hexenschuss#82,882

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list