progredient
[pʁoɡʁeˈdi̯ɛnt]
The verdict
“progredient” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich entwickelnd, fortschreitend
Corpus desk
Index DE-progredient · progredient · German
progredient · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 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 | progredient |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [pʁoɡʁeˈdi̯ɛnt] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „progredient“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
progredient is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [pʁoɡʁeˈdi̯ɛnt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sich entwickelnd, fortschreitend".
progredient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is progredient, spelled P-R-O-G-R-E-D-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1sich entwickelnd, fortschreitend
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how progredient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„In den ersten Lebensmonaten und Lebensjahren vollzieht sich eine stürmische Zunahme der Intelligenz; mit zunehmendem Alter wird der Anstieg progredient geringer, und um das 20. Lebensjahr herum bildet sich ein Begabungsplateau aus.“
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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.