katastrophaler
The verdict
“katastrophaler” is an uncommon German word, ranked #89,144 in German word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #89,144
- frequency rank, German
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs katastrophal
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | katastrophaler |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [katastʁoˈfaːlɐ] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #89,144 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “katastrophaler” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for katastrophaler is 14 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [katastʁoˈfaːlɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #89,144 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for katastrophaler in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 katastrophaler, spelled K-A-T-A-S-T-R-O-P-H-A-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs katastrophal
- 2Genitiv Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs katastrophal
- 3Dativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs katastrophal
- 4Genitiv Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs katastrophal
- 5Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs katastrophal
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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- The one correct German spelling is K-A-T-A-S-T-R-O-P-H-A-L-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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