Ingenieurin

[ɪnʒeˈni̯øːʁɪn]

/[ɪnʒeˈni̯øːʁɪn]/ noun

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The verdict

“Ingenieurin” is uncommon German (frequency #58,898 among 1,488 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#58,898
frequency rank, German
1,488
“I” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Berufsbezeichnung für Absolventinnen technischer Studiengänge/der Ingenieurwissenschaften

Corpus desk

Index DE-ingenieurin · Ingenieurin · German

Ingenieurin · rank #58,898 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #58,898
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,488
  • PHOTO-FINISH infizierter

Nearest frequency peer: infizierter (-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 „Ingenieurin“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Ingenieurin
PropertyValue
HeadwordIngenieurin
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ɪnʒeˈni̯øːʁɪn]
Letters11
Frequency rank#58,898
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Ingenieurin“ im Deutschen

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

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

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „infizierter“ (#58,897), „Inkubationszeit“ (#58,899), „Infinitiv“ (#58,896). Unter 1,488 „I“-Lemmata liegt „Ingenieurin“ bei #58,898. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Ingenieurin is uncommon German at frequency #58,898 among 1,488 “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

  1. 1
    Berufsbezeichnung für Absolventinnen technischer Studiengänge/der Ingenieurwissenschaften

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Ingenieurin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Sie vollendet gerade ihre Ausbildungszeit als Ingenieurin und ist eine der Aktivistinnen des Werkes.“

This word in other languages

engineer(English)

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 "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. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

infizierter#58,897Jugendämter#58,908Hosenträger#58,885Heimatkunde#58,860

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list