Notorietät
[ˌnotoʁieˈtɛːt]
The verdict
“Notorietät” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Tatsache, dass etwas offenkundig, (jedermann) bekannt ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-notorietat · Notorietät · German
Notorietät · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | Notorietät |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌnotoʁieˈtɛːt] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Notorietät“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Notorietät is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˌnotoʁieˈtɛːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "die Tatsache, dass etwas offenkundig, (jedermann) bekannt ist".
Notorietät has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Notorietät, spelled N-O-T-O-R-I-E-T-Ä-T.
Definition
- 1die Tatsache, dass etwas offenkundig, (jedermann) bekannt ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Notorietät appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die notorietätsbegründenden Umstände - In seinem Kapitel 'Von kundtlich wissen' beschreibt der Laienspiegel drei Kategorien der Notorietät. Unterscheidungskriterium sind die Umstände, aus denen die Gewissheit resultiert.“
„Man unterscheidet verschiedene Arten der Notorietät nach dem Umfange der Kreise, in welchem die fragliche Thatsache bekannt ist.“ (1857)
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.