Negligé
[neɡliˈʒeː]
The verdict
“Negligé” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - leichter, bequemer Morgenmantel, Nachtbekleidung für Frauen, heute verbindet man damit Reizwäsche
Corpus desk
Index DE-neglige · Negligé · German
Negligé · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Negligé |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [neɡliˈʒeː] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Negligé“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Negligé is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [neɡliˈʒeː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "leichter, bequemer Morgenmantel, Nachtbekleidung für Frauen, heute verbindet man damit Reizwäsche".
Negligé doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Negligé, spelled N-E-G-L-I-G-É.
Definition
- 1leichter, bequemer Morgenmantel, Nachtbekleidung für Frauen, heute verbindet man damit Reizwäsche
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Negligé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wer an das Wort „Netzteil“ denkt, denkt im ersten Augenblick bestimmt nicht an ein Negligé. Er sollte es aber hin und wieder tun.
„Ihm kam überhaupt nicht der Gedanke an Widerspruch, und als er zur festgesetzten Stunde bei ihr erschien, stellte sich heraus, daß Erika Schwarz unter dem hauchdünnen Negligé, einer Pariser Aufmerksamkeit ihres seit Kriegsanfang eingezogenen Mannes, unbekleidet war.“
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.