indifferent
[ˈɪndɪfəˌʁɛnt]
The verdict
“indifferent” is uncommon German (frequency #90,454 among 1,488 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,454
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unentschieden zwischen oder gleichgültig gegenüber mehreren Möglichkeiten
Corpus desk
Index DE-indifferent · indifferent · German
indifferent · rank #90,454 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,454
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH Indices
Nearest frequency peer: Indices (-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 „indifferent“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- idealisiert…
idealisierten
9,550 corpus weight
- Immuntherap…
Immuntherapie
9,549 corpus weight
- Indices
Indices
9,548 corpus weight
- indifferent
indifferent
9,547 corpus weight
- Industriebau
Industriebau
9,546 corpus weight
- infektiöse
infektiöse
9,543 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „indifferent“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „indifferent“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
indifferent is uncommon German at frequency #90,454 among 1,488 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈɪndɪfəˌʁɛnt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how indifferent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Trotz der heftigen Auseinandersetzung verhielt er sich diesmal völlig indifferent.
Dieser Behauptung stehe ich völlig indifferent gegenüber. Ich habe dazu keine vorgefasste Meinung.
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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