monumental
[monumɛnˈtaːl]
The verdict
“monumental” is uncommon German (frequency #71,635 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,635
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gewaltig und eindrucksvoll
Corpus desk
Index DE-monumental · monumental · German
monumental · rank #71,635 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,635
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Monteure
Nearest frequency peer: Monteure (-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 „monumental“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Monteure
Monteure
28,367 corpus weight
- monumental
monumental
28,366 corpus weight
- Motette
Motette
28,365 corpus weight
- MPG
MPG
28,364 corpus weight
- MRSA
MRSA
28,363 corpus weight
- Muffel
Muffel
28,362 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „monumental“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monumental |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [monumɛnˈtaːl] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,635 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „monumental“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
monumental is uncommon German at frequency #71,635 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [monumɛnˈtaːl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "gewaltig und eindrucksvoll".
Zero misspellings are on record for monumental in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is monumental, spelled M-O-N-U-M-E-N-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1gewaltig und eindrucksvoll
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how monumental appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Auch nach den Umbauarbeiten blieb der monumentale Charakter der Anlage erhalten.
Meine Mutter war seit jeher eine Frau von monumentalen Ausmaßen.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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