ordinary
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The verdict
“ordinary” is uncommon German (frequency #80,764 among 1,007 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,764
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unterdurchschnittlich, durchschnittlich
Corpus desk
Index DE-ordinary · ordinary · German
ordinary · rank #80,764 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,764
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH Opiate
Nearest frequency peer: Opiate (-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 „ordinary“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- operierende
operierende
19,239 corpus weight
- Opiate
Opiate
19,238 corpus weight
- ordinary
ordinary
19,237 corpus weight
- originär
originär
19,236 corpus weight
- Osthessen
Osthessen
19,235 corpus weight
- Oxytocin
Oxytocin
19,233 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „ordinary“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ordinary |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,764 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „ordinary“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
ordinary is uncommon German at frequency #80,764 among 1,007 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
ordinary has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is ordinary, spelled O-R-D-I-N-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1unterdurchschnittlich, durchschnittlich
- 2gewöhnlich, üblich, alltäglich, ordinär
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ordinary appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"It must, then, have been no ordinary woe which, in the midst of my years, interposed, like the shadow of a great wall, between my eyes and the books from which I had drawn so much intellectual pleasure and improvement in the happier years of my life."
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).