necessary
[ˈnesəs(ə)ri]
The verdict
“necessary” is uncommon German (frequency #70,612 among 1,954 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,612
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - erforderlich, notwendig, nötig
Corpus desk
Index DE-necessary · necessary · German
necessary · rank #70,612 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,612
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Neapolitanisc…
Nearest frequency peer: Neapolitanischen (-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 „necessary“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Nagetiere
Nagetiere
29,392 corpus weight
- narrativen
narrativen
29,391 corpus weight
- Neapolitani…
Neapolitanischen
29,390 corpus weight
- necessary
necessary
29,389 corpus weight
- neg
neg
29,388 corpus weight
- Nettigkeit
Nettigkeit
29,387 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „necessary“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | necessary |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈnesəs(ə)ri] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „necessary“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
necessary is uncommon German at frequency #70,612 among 1,954 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈnesəs(ə)ri]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "erforderlich, notwendig, nötig".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for necessary, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is necessary, spelled N-E-C-E-S-S-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1erforderlich, notwendig, nötig
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how necessary appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nutrients like water are necessary for animals.
A man said, that food is more necessary than enough wood[…].
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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