originär
[oʁiɡiˈnɛːɐ̯]
The verdict
“originär” is uncommon German (frequency #80,765 among 1,007 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,765
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ursprünglich; nicht abgeleitet, nicht wiederholt, nicht verändert
Corpus desk
Index DE-originar · originär · German
originär · rank #80,765 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,765
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH ordinary
Nearest frequency peer: ordinary (-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 „originär“
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 „originär“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | originär |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [oʁiɡiˈnɛːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „originär“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
originär is uncommon German at frequency #80,765 among 1,007 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [oʁiɡiˈnɛːɐ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for originär, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is originär, spelled O-R-I-G-I-N-Ä-R.
Definition
- 1ursprünglich; nicht abgeleitet, nicht wiederholt, nicht verändert
- 2eigenständig, grundlegend neu
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how originär appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Originär elektronische Daten sind unter dem Datenbegriff zu differenzieren, der im vergangenen Newsletter diskutiert wurde.“
Originäres und derivatives Recht unterliegen verschiedenen Normen hinsichtlich des Erwerbs und der Qualität des Rechtes.
This word in other languages
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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