populistisch
The verdict
“populistisch” is an uncommon German word, ranked #51,605 in German word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #51,605
- frequency rank, German
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: sich mit seinen politischen Forderungen nach den jeweils aktuellen Wünschen und Ängsten der Bevölkerung richtend, um die Unterstützung möglichst vieler Wähler zu erhalten
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | populistisch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [popuˈlɪstɪʃ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #51,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “populistisch” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for populistisch is 12 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [popuˈlɪstɪʃ]. Corpus data places it at rank #51,605 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for populistisch 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 populistisch, spelled P-O-P-U-L-I-S-T-I-S-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sich mit seinen politischen Forderungen nach den jeweils aktuellen Wünschen und Ängsten der Bevölkerung richtend, um die Unterstützung möglichst vieler Wähler zu erhalten
- 2im Stile der literarischen Richtung des Populismus im 20. Jahrhundert
Synonyms
Frequency rank: #51,605 in German
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Using “populistisch”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is P-O-P-U-L-I-S-T-I-S-C-H — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [popuˈlɪstɪʃ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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