selbsttätig
[ˈzɛlpstˌtɛːtɪç]
The verdict
“selbsttätig” is uncommon German (frequency #67,697 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,697
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - von selbst funktionierend; ohne Zutun wirkend
Corpus desk
Index DE-selbsttatig · selbsttätig · German
selbsttätig · rank #67,697 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,697
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH selbstbestimm…
Nearest frequency peer: selbstbestimmten (-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 „selbsttätig“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- seeds
seeds
32,309 corpus weight
- Selbs
Selbs
32,306 corpus weight
- selbstbesti…
selbstbestimmten
32,305 corpus weight
- selbsttätig
selbsttätig
32,304 corpus weight
- SFB
SFB
32,301 corpus weight
- Sheriffs
Sheriffs
32,300 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „selbsttätig“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | selbsttätig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈzɛlpstˌtɛːtɪç] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #67,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „selbsttätig“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
selbsttätig is uncommon German at frequency #67,697 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈzɛlpstˌtɛːtɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "von selbst funktionierend; ohne Zutun wirkend".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for selbsttätig, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 selbsttätig, spelled S-E-L-B-S-T-T-Ä-T-I-G.
Definition
- 1von selbst funktionierend; ohne Zutun wirkend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how selbsttätig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Fallschirm öffnet sich in einer bestimmten Höhe selbsttätig.
Die Kamera sollte selbsttätig eine Reihe von Aufnahmen machen, sobald der Zustand der Gewichtslosigkeit eintrat.
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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