irreversibel
[ɪʁevɛʁˈziːbl̩]
The verdict
“irreversibel” is uncommon German (frequency #59,762 among 1,488 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,762
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nicht umkehrbar, nicht rückgängig zu machen
Corpus desk
Index DE-irreversibel · irreversibel · German
irreversibel · rank #59,762 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,762
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH ironischer
Nearest frequency peer: ironischer (-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 „irreversibel“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Insolvenzen
Insolvenzen
40,242 corpus weight
- Internation…
Internationalität
40,241 corpus weight
- ironischer
ironischer
40,240 corpus weight
- irreversibel
irreversibel
40,239 corpus weight
- islamophobie
islamophobie
40,238 corpus weight
- Isländisch
Isländisch
40,237 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „irreversibel“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | irreversibel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɪʁevɛʁˈziːbl̩] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #59,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „irreversibel“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
irreversibel is uncommon German at frequency #59,762 among 1,488 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ɪʁevɛʁˈziːbl̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "nicht umkehrbar, nicht rückgängig zu machen".
No generated misspelling entries exist for irreversibel in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 irreversibel, spelled I-R-R-E-V-E-R-S-I-B-E-L.
Definition
- 1nicht umkehrbar, nicht rückgängig zu machen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how irreversibel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bei einem Verkehrsunfall wurde sein Rückenmark irreversibel geschädigt.
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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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