plakativ
[ˌplakaˈtiːf]
The verdict
“plakativ” is uncommon German (frequency #51,600 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,600
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sehr betont, auffällig, vordergründig in der Aussage
Corpus desk
Index DE-plakativ · plakativ · German
plakativ · rank #51,600 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,600
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH pirate
Nearest frequency peer: pirate (-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 „plakativ“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Pietsch
Pietsch
48,404 corpus weight
- Pipelines
Pipelines
48,403 corpus weight
- pirate
pirate
48,402 corpus weight
- plakativ
plakativ
48,401 corpus weight
- Platzgründen
Platzgründen
48,400 corpus weight
- Polizeipräs…
Polizeipräsidenten
48,397 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „plakativ“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plakativ |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˌplakaˈtiːf] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „plakativ“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
plakativ is uncommon German at frequency #51,600 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˌplakaˈtiːf]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sehr betont, auffällig, vordergründig in der Aussage".
No misspelling variants are generated for plakativ in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 plakativ, spelled P-L-A-K-A-T-I-V.
Definition
- 1sehr betont, auffällig, vordergründig in der Aussage
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plakativ appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mehr als ein paar plakative Sätze kann man hier nicht anbringen.
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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