Passivität
The verdict
“Passivität” is an uncommon German word, ranked #50,778 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #50,778
- frequency rank, German
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: der Zustand, passiv zu sein; das Nichtausführen von Handlungen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Passivität |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pasiviˈtɛːt] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Passivität” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Passivität is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pasiviˈtɛːt]. Corpus data places it at rank #50,778 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "der Zustand, passiv zu sein; das Nichtausführen von Handlungen".
No misspelling variants are generated for Passivität in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Passivität, spelled P-A-S-S-I-V-I-T-Ä-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1der Zustand, passiv zu sein; das Nichtausführen von Handlungen
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Frequency rank: #50,778 in German
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Using “Passivität”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is P-A-S-S-I-V-I-T-Ä-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [pasiviˈtɛːt] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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