Profilierung
[ˌpʁofiˈliːʁʊŋ]
The verdict
“Profilierung” is uncommon German (frequency #50,805 among 49,534 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,805
- frequency rank, German
- 49,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - das Zurschaustellen einer bestimmten Eigenart, einer klaren Haltung oder einer deutlichen Richtung, um sich von Anderen abzuheben
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Profilierung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌpʁofiˈliːʁʊŋ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #50,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Profilierung” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Profilierung is uncommon German at frequency #50,805 among 49,534 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˌpʁofiˈliːʁʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Profilierung in our index, 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, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Profilierung, spelled P-R-O-F-I-L-I-E-R-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1das Zurschaustellen einer bestimmten Eigenart, einer klaren Haltung oder einer deutlichen Richtung, um sich von Anderen abzuheben
- 2Formgebung einer Oberfläche mittels eines Musters beziehungsweise einer Struktur, das/die regelmäßig wie auch unregelmäßig ausgebildet sein kann, wodurch die Oberfläche im Querschnitt entsprechend ausgestaltete Erhebungen oder Vertiefungen aufweist
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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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Using “Profilierung”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is P-R-O-F-I-L-I-E-R-U-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.