Intifada
[ˌɪntiˈfaːda]
The verdict
“Intifada” is uncommon German (frequency #75,810 among 1,488 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,810
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in den von Israel besetzten palästinensischen Gebieten (Westjordanland, Gazastreifen) aufgekommene gewaltsame Widerstandsbewegung
Corpus desk
Index DE-intifada · Intifada · German
Intifada · rank #75,810 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,810
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH International…
Nearest frequency peer: Internationalismus (-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 „Intifada“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Interaktivi…
Interaktivität
24,194 corpus weight
- Interfaces
Interfaces
24,193 corpus weight
- Internation…
Internationalismus
24,192 corpus weight
- Intifada
Intifada
24,191 corpus weight
- Intranspare…
Intransparenz
24,190 corpus weight
- introvertie…
introvertierte
24,189 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Intifada“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Intifada |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌɪntiˈfaːda] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Intifada“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Intifada is uncommon German at frequency #75,810 among 1,488 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˌɪntiˈfaːda]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "in den von Israel besetzten palästinensischen Gebieten (Westjordanland, Gazastreifen) aufgekommene gewaltsame Widerstandsbewegung".
Intifada has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Intifada, spelled I-N-T-I-F-A-D-A.
Definition
- 1in den von Israel besetzten palästinensischen Gebieten (Westjordanland, Gazastreifen) aufgekommene gewaltsame Widerstandsbewegung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Intifada appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Jahre gingen ins Land und mit ihnen die Intifada.“
„Der Volksaufstand, der seit Ende September 2000 die Palästinensergebiete erfasst hat, machte der Welt von Anfang an seine symbolischen Bezüge deutlich: In den Medien, in der Öffentlichkeit, firmierte er bald unter dem Namen ‚Al-Aksa-Intifada‘. Die Bezeichnung taugt jedoch nicht als Schlüssel zum Verständnis der Ereignisse: Sie mag einen trügerischen Déjà…
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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