indifferent
[ˈɪndɪfəˌʁɛnt]
The verdict
“indifferent” is an uncommon German word, ranked #90,454 in German word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #90,454
- frequency rank, German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - unentschieden zwischen oder gleichgültig gegenüber mehreren Möglichkeiten
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | indifferent |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈɪndɪfəˌʁɛnt] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #90,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “indifferent” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for indifferent is 11 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɪndɪfəˌʁɛnt]. Corpus data places it at rank #90,454 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "unentschieden zwischen oder gleichgültig gegenüber mehreren Möglichkeiten".
indifferent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is indifferent, spelled I-N-D-I-F-F-E-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1unentschieden zwischen oder gleichgültig gegenüber mehreren Möglichkeiten
Antonyms
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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Using “indifferent”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is I-N-D-I-F-F-E-R-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈɪndɪfəˌʁɛnt] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.