nervtötend

[ˈnɛʁfˌtøːtn̩t]

/[ˈnɛʁfˌtøːtn̩t]/ adj

The verdict

“nervtötend” is uncommon German (frequency #76,013 among 1,954 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#76,013
frequency rank, German
1,954
“N” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - stark nervend, die Geduld stark beanspruchend

Corpus desk

Index DE-nervtotend · nervtötend · German

nervtötend · rank #76,013 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #76,013
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,954
  • PHOTO-FINISH nehmenden

Nearest frequency peer: nehmenden (-2 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 „nervtötend“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „nervtötend“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for nervtötend
PropertyValue
Headwordnervtötend
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[ˈnɛʁfˌtøːtn̩t]
Letters10
Frequency rank#76,013
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „nervtötend“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.nervtötendfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „nehmenden“ (#76,011), „Nebra“ (#76,010), „Neurath“ (#76,016). Unter 1,954 „N“-Lemmata liegt „nervtötend“ bei #76,013. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

nervtötend is uncommon German at frequency #76,013 among 1,954 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈnɛʁfˌtøːtn̩t]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "stark nervend, die Geduld stark beanspruchend".

Zero misspellings are on record for nervtötend in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. 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 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 nervtötend, spelled N-E-R-V-T-Ö-T-E-N-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    stark nervend, die Geduld stark beanspruchend

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how nervtötend appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Der Taliban-Gouverneur von Kandahar, Mullah Mohammed Hassan Rehmani, hat die etwas nervtötende Angewohnheit, mit seinem verbliebenen heilen Bein ununterbrochen den Tisch vor sich hin und her zu kicken.“
  2. „Es war eine einfache, wenngleich nervtötende Aufgabe.“

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "nervtötend"?
"nervtötend" is spelled N-E-R-V-T-Ö-T-E-N-D. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈnɛʁfˌtøːtn̩t].
What does "nervtötend" mean?
As an adjective, "nervtötend" means: stark nervend, die Geduld stark beanspruchend
How do you pronounce "nervtötend"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "nervtötend" is [ˈnɛʁfˌtøːtn̩t]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "nervtötend", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list