invisible

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The verdict

“invisible” is uncommon German (frequency #52,180 among 1,488 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#52,180
frequency rank, German
1,488
“I” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unsichtbar

Corpus desk

Index DE-invisible · invisible · German

invisible · rank #52,180 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #52,180
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,488
  • PHOTO-FINISH interdiszipli…

Nearest frequency peer: interdisziplinär (-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 „invisible“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for invisible
PropertyValue
Headwordinvisible
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[…]
Letters9
Frequency rank#52,180
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „invisible“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).invisiblefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „interdisziplinär“ (#52,179), „italiano“ (#52,181), „innert“ (#52,178). Unter 1,488 „I“-Lemmata liegt „invisible“ bei #52,180. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

invisible is uncommon German at frequency #52,180 among 1,488 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "unsichtbar".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for invisible, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

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 invisible, spelled I-N-V-I-S-I-B-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    unsichtbar

Synonyms

unseeable

Antonyms

visible

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "invisible"?
"invisible" is spelled I-N-V-I-S-I-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "invisible" mean?
As an adjective, "invisible" means: unsichtbar
How do you pronounce "invisible"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "invisible" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "invisible" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list