kümmerlich
[ˈkʏmɐlɪç]
The verdict
“kümmerlich” is uncommon German (frequency #89,196 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,196
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - weit unterdurchschnittlich ausgebildet, entwickelt; mit deutlichen Defiziten
Corpus desk
Index DE-kummerlich · kümmerlich · German
kümmerlich · rank #89,196 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,196
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kühlhaus
Nearest frequency peer: Kühlhaus (-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 „kümmerlich“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- kyrillisch
kyrillisch
10,808 corpus weight
- Könnern
Könnern
10,807 corpus weight
- Kühlhaus
Kühlhaus
10,806 corpus weight
- kümmerlich
kümmerlich
10,805 corpus weight
- Küstenregio…
Küstenregionen
10,803 corpus weight
- lale
lale
10,801 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „kümmerlich“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kümmerlich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈkʏmɐlɪç] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #89,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „kümmerlich“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
kümmerlich is uncommon German at frequency #89,196 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈkʏmɐlɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "weit unterdurchschnittlich ausgebildet, entwickelt; mit deutlichen Defiziten".
Zero misspellings are on record for kümmerlich in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable 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 kümmerlich, spelled K-Ü-M-M-E-R-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1weit unterdurchschnittlich ausgebildet, entwickelt; mit deutlichen Defiziten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kümmerlich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mit seinen kümmerlichen Englischkenntnissen kam er auch nicht weiter.
Außer einem kümmerlichen Hering hat er nichts gefangen.
Synonyms
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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