necessary

/[ˈnesəs(ə)ri]/ adj

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#70,612

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

necessary is anGermanadj. It means: erforderlich, notwendig, nötig Pronounced [ˈnesəs(ə)ri].

Key facts for necessary
PropertyValue
Headwordnecessary
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdj
IPA[ˈnesəs(ə)ri]
Letters9
Frequency rank#70,612
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for necessary is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnesəs(ə)ri]. Corpus data places it at rank #70,612 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "erforderlich, notwendig, nötig".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for necessary 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 necessary, spelled N-E-C-E-S-S-A-R-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    erforderlich, notwendig, nötig

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #70,612 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "necessary"?
"necessary" is spelled N-E-C-E-S-S-A-R-Y. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈnesəs(ə)ri].
What does "necessary" mean?
As an adj, "necessary" means: erforderlich, notwendig, nötig
How do you pronounce "necessary"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "necessary" is [ˈnesəs(ə)ri]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "necessary" come from?
"necessary" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.