quiet
[ˈkwʌɪət]
The verdict
“quiet” is uncommon German (frequency #57,336 among 216 “Q” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,336
- frequency rank, German
- 216
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - leise
Corpus desk
Index DE-quiet · quiet · German
quiet · rank #57,336 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,336
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 216
- PHOTO-FINISH Quinoa
Nearest frequency peer: Quinoa (+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 „quiet“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- psychoanaly…
psychoanalytische
42,669 corpus weight
- qualvollen
qualvollen
42,667 corpus weight
- quiet
quiet
42,665 corpus weight
- Quinoa
Quinoa
42,664 corpus weight
- Quito
Quito
42,663 corpus weight
- Ramsch
Ramsch
42,662 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „quiet“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quiet |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈkwʌɪət] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,336 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „quiet“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
quiet is uncommon German at frequency #57,336 among 216 “Q” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈkwʌɪət]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "leise".
quiet has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is quiet, spelled Q-U-I-E-T.
Definition
- 1leise
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quiet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
One should be quiet in libraries since others may be reading.
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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