Ingenieurin

/[ɪnʒeˈni̯øːʁɪn]/ noun

The verdict

“Ingenieurin” is an uncommon German word, ranked #58,898 in German word frequency and used as a noun.

#58,898
frequency rank, German
11
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Berufsbezeichnung für Absolventinnen technischer Studiengänge/der Ingenieurwissenschaften

Key facts for Ingenieurin
PropertyValue
HeadwordIngenieurin
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ɪnʒeˈni̯øːʁɪn]
Letters11
Frequency rank#58,898
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Ingenieurin” sits in German frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Ingenieurin lands here:

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

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Ingenieurin is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɪnʒeˈni̯øːʁɪn]. Corpus data places it at rank #58,898 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Berufsbezeichnung für Absolventinnen technischer Studiengänge/der Ingenieurwissenschaften".

No misspelling variants are generated for Ingenieurin in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Ingenieurin, spelled I-N-G-E-N-I-E-U-R-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Berufsbezeichnung für Absolventinnen technischer Studiengänge/der Ingenieurwissenschaften

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #58,898 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Ingenieurin"?
"Ingenieurin" is spelled I-N-G-E-N-I-E-U-R-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ɪnʒeˈni̯øːʁɪn].
What does "Ingenieurin" mean?
As a noun, "Ingenieurin" means: Berufsbezeichnung für Absolventinnen technischer Studiengänge/der Ingenieurwissenschaften
How do you pronounce "Ingenieurin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Ingenieurin" is [ɪnʒeˈni̯øːʁɪn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Ingenieurin" come from?
"Ingenieurin" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “Ingenieurin”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is I-N-G-E-N-I-E-U-R-I-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [ɪnʒeˈni̯øːʁɪn] (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

Nearby German words

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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.