Ingenieurin
[ɪnʒeˈni̯øːʁɪn]
The verdict
“Ingenieurin” is uncommon German (frequency #58,898 among 17,725 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,898
- frequency rank, German
- 17,725
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Berufsbezeichnung für Absolventinnen technischer Studiengänge/der Ingenieurwissenschaften
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ingenieurin |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɪnʒeˈni̯øːʁɪn] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #58,898 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Ingenieurin” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Ingenieurin is uncommon German at frequency #58,898 among 17,725 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɪnʒeˈni̯øːʁɪn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Berufsbezeichnung für Absolventinnen technischer Studiengänge/der Ingenieurwissenschaften".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Ingenieurin, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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. The correct German form is Ingenieurin, spelled I-N-G-E-N-I-E-U-R-I-N.
Definition
- 1Berufsbezeichnung für Absolventinnen technischer Studiengänge/der Ingenieurwissenschaften
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 “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.
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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.