resignieren

/[ʁezɪˈɡniːʁən]/ verb

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#77,244

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

resignieren is aGermanverb. It means: auf etwas eigentlich Gewünschtes, das unerreichbar zu sein scheint, widerwillig verzichten Pronounced [ʁezɪˈɡniːʁən].

Key facts for resignieren
PropertyValue
Headwordresignieren
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ʁezɪˈɡniːʁən]
Letters11
Frequency rank#77,244
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of resignieren in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for resignieren is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʁezɪˈɡniːʁən]. Corpus data places it at rank #77,244 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "auf etwas eigentlich Gewünschtes, das unerreichbar zu sein scheint, widerwillig verzichten".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for resignieren in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 resignieren, spelled R-E-S-I-G-N-I-E-R-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    auf etwas eigentlich Gewünschtes, das unerreichbar zu sein scheint, widerwillig verzichten

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #77,244 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "resignieren"?
"resignieren" is spelled R-E-S-I-G-N-I-E-R-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ʁezɪˈɡniːʁən].
What does "resignieren" mean?
As a verb, "resignieren" means: auf etwas eigentlich Gewünschtes, das unerreichbar zu sein scheint, widerwillig verzichten
How do you pronounce "resignieren"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "resignieren" is [ʁezɪˈɡniːʁən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "resignieren" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.