jeopardy
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The verdict
“jeopardy” is uncommon German (frequency #98,651 among 699 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,651
- frequency rank, German
- 699
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Risiko von Tod, Verletzung, Verlust, von Entdeckung oder Ähnlichem: Gefahr
Corpus desk
Index DE-jeopardy · jeopardy · German
jeopardy · rank #98,651 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,651
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 699
- PHOTO-FINISH Jetski
Nearest frequency peer: Jetski (+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 „jeopardy“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Jahresvergl…
Jahresvergleich
1,354 corpus weight
- Japanologie
Japanologie
1,353 corpus weight
- jeopardy
jeopardy
1,350 corpus weight
- Jetski
Jetski
1,349 corpus weight
- jeweiliges
jeweiliges
1,347 corpus weight
- Jokers
Jokers
1,346 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „jeopardy“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeopardy |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,651 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „jeopardy“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
jeopardy is uncommon German at frequency #98,651 among 699 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
jeopardy has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is jeopardy, spelled J-E-O-P-A-R-D-Y.
Definition
- 1Risiko von Tod, Verletzung, Verlust, von Entdeckung oder Ähnlichem: Gefahr
- 2Risiko eines Angeklagten, vor Gericht verurteilt zu werden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jeopardy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"His greatest admirer could not have cordially justified his bringing his harpoon into breakfast with him, and using it there without ceremony; reaching over the table with it, to the imminent jeopardy of many heads, and grappling the beefsteaks towards him."
"It is more pertinent to observe that it seems to me that logically and rationally a man cannot be said to be more than once in jeopardy in the same cause, however often he may be tried."
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).