Kongruenz

[kɔŋɡʁuˈɛnt͡s]

/[kɔŋɡʁuˈɛnt͡s]/ noun

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The verdict

“Kongruenz” is uncommon German (frequency #93,166 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#93,166
frequency rank, German
4,158
“K” headwords

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

Corpus desk

Index DE-kongruenz · Kongruenz · German

Kongruenz · rank #93,166 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #93,166
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,158
  • PHOTO-FINISH konfessionslos

Nearest frequency peer: konfessionslos (-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 „Kongruenz“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Kongruenz
PropertyValue
HeadwordKongruenz
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kɔŋɡʁuˈɛnt͡s]
Letters9
Frequency rank#93,166
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Kongruenz“ im Deutschen

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

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

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „konfessionslos“ (#93,165), „kontinental“ (#93,167), „kone“ (#93,164). Unter 4,158 „K“-Lemmata liegt „Kongruenz“ bei #93,166. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Kongruenz is uncommon German at frequency #93,166 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kɔŋɡʁuˈɛnt͡s]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for Kongruenz in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

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 Kongruenz, spelled K-O-N-G-R-U-E-N-Z.

Definition

  1. 1
    Übereinstimmung
  2. 2
    Übereinstimmung
  3. 3
    Deckungsgleichheit
  4. 4
    Im Insolvenzrecht die Übereinstimmung einer Leistung mit einer zuvor bestehenden Verpflichtung des Leistenden (die - im Vergleich zu einer inkongruenten Leistung - nur unter engeren Voraussetzungen die Insolvenzanfechtung ermöglicht). Vgl. § 130 InsO

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Kongruenz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Die Kongruenz zwischen Satzgliedern ist syntaktisch sehr wichtig, wenn Sätze grammatisch korrekt sein sollen.
  2. „Da ist die Erscheinung der Kongruenz, die man in der afrikanischen Sprachwissenschaft auch Konkordanz nennt.“

Antonyms

Constructio ad sensumConstructio kata synesinsemantische KongruenzInkongruenz

This word in other languages

congruity(English)concordancia(Español)accord(Français)

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 "Kongruenz"?
"Kongruenz" is spelled K-O-N-G-R-U-E-N-Z. The IPA pronunciation is [kɔŋɡʁuˈɛnt͡s].
What does "Kongruenz" mean?
As a noun, "Kongruenz" means: Übereinstimmung
How do you pronounce "Kongruenz"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Kongruenz" is [kɔŋɡʁuˈɛnt͡s]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Kongruenz" come from?
"Kongruenz" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

Kondensat#93,163Kriemhild#93,180Kidnapper#93,142jubelnden#93,120

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list