inhärent
[ɪnhɛˈʁɛnt]
The verdict
“inhärent” is uncommon German (frequency #84,135 among 1,488 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,135
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (einer Sache) anhaftend, innewohnend
Corpus desk
Index DE-inharent · inhärent · German
inhärent · rank #84,135 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,135
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH Infekte
Nearest frequency peer: Infekte (-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 „inhärent“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Immunantwort
Immunantwort
15,869 corpus weight
- Infanterist…
Infanteristen
15,868 corpus weight
- Infekte
Infekte
15,867 corpus weight
- inhärent
inhärent
15,866 corpus weight
- Innenarchit…
Innenarchitektin
15,865 corpus weight
- Innenwände
Innenwände
15,864 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „inhärent“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inhärent |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɪnhɛˈʁɛnt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „inhärent“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
inhärent is uncommon German at frequency #84,135 among 1,488 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ɪnhɛˈʁɛnt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(einer Sache) anhaftend, innewohnend".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for inhärent, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is inhärent, spelled I-N-H-Ä-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1(einer Sache) anhaftend, innewohnend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inhärent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Niemand wird in Deutschland auf absehbare Zeit neue Kernkraftwerke bauen, selbst inhärent sichere nicht.“
„Die Stigmatisierung der Juden, die dem christlichen Dogma oder der christlichen Tradition inhärent ist, fand im anerkannten theologischen Denken und in den öffentlichen Äußerungen aller Kirchen Europas ein breites Spektrum von Ausdrucksformen.“
Synonyms
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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