jeopardy

/[…]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#98,651

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

jeopardy is aGermannoun. It means: Risiko von Tod, Verletzung, Verlust, von Entdeckung oder Ähnlichem: Gefahr Pronounced […].

Key facts for jeopardy
PropertyValue
Headwordjeopardy
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters8
Frequency rank#98,651
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of jeopardy in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for jeopardy is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #98,651 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for jeopardy in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is jeopardy, spelled J-E-O-P-A-R-D-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Risiko von Tod, Verletzung, Verlust, von Entdeckung oder Ähnlichem: Gefahr
  2. 2
    Risiko eines Angeklagten, vor Gericht verurteilt zu werden

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #98,651 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jeopardy"?
"jeopardy" is spelled J-E-O-P-A-R-D-Y. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "jeopardy" mean?
As a noun, "jeopardy" means: Risiko von Tod, Verletzung, Verlust, von Entdeckung oder Ähnlichem: Gefahr
How do you pronounce "jeopardy"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jeopardy" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jeopardy" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.