resignieren
[ʁezɪˈɡniːʁən]
The verdict
“resignieren” is uncommon German (frequency #77,244 among 2,984 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,244
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - auf etwas eigentlich Gewünschtes, das unerreichbar zu sein scheint, widerwillig verzichten
Corpus desk
Index DE-resignieren · resignieren · German
resignieren · rank #77,244 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,244
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH reproduzierbar
Nearest frequency peer: reproduzierbar (-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 „resignieren“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Rekordjagd
Rekordjagd
22,760 corpus weight
- reo
reo
22,759 corpus weight
- reproduzier…
reproduzierbar
22,758 corpus weight
- resignieren
resignieren
22,757 corpus weight
- responsible
responsible
22,756 corpus weight
- Ressentiment
Ressentiment
22,755 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „resignieren“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | resignieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʁezɪˈɡniːʁən] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #77,244 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „resignieren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
resignieren is uncommon German at frequency #77,244 among 2,984 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ʁezɪˈɡniːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "auf etwas eigentlich Gewünschtes, das unerreichbar zu sein scheint, widerwillig verzichten".
resignieren has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is resignieren, spelled R-E-S-I-G-N-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1auf etwas eigentlich Gewünschtes, das unerreichbar zu sein scheint, widerwillig verzichten
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how resignieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Was seine Berufswünsche angeht, hat er inzwischen völlig resigniert.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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