pflichteifrig
[ˈp͡flɪçtˌʔaɪ̯fʁɪç]
The verdict
“pflichteifrig” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ernsthaft bemüht, seine Pflichten zu erfüllen
Corpus desk
Index DE-pflichteifrig · pflichteifrig · German
pflichteifrig · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | pflichteifrig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈp͡flɪçtˌʔaɪ̯fʁɪç] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „pflichteifrig“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
pflichteifrig is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈp͡flɪçtˌʔaɪ̯fʁɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ernsthaft bemüht, seine Pflichten zu erfüllen".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pflichteifrig, 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 pflichteifrig, spelled P-F-L-I-C-H-T-E-I-F-R-I-G.
Definition
- 1ernsthaft bemüht, seine Pflichten zu erfüllen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pflichteifrig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der wackern Liesel, die sich pflichteifrig schon wieder ihrem Kaffeetopf zugewandt hatte, schien es nun doch an der Zeit, dem flatterhaften Verehrer einen leisen Wink zu geben.“
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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.