Sinnkrise
[ˈzɪnˌkʁiːzə]
The verdict
“Sinnkrise” is uncommon German (frequency #96,263 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,263
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - geistig-seelische Problemlage, die nach einer Sinnfindung verlangt
Corpus desk
Index DE-sinnkrise · Sinnkrise · German
Sinnkrise · rank #96,263 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,263
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Simferopol
Nearest frequency peer: Simferopol (-2 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 „Sinnkrise“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Siebenkampf
Siebenkampf
3,743 corpus weight
- Siegerinnen
Siegerinnen
3,742 corpus weight
- silbergrau
silbergrau
3,741 corpus weight
- Simferopol
Simferopol
3,740 corpus weight
- Sinnkrise
Sinnkrise
3,738 corpus weight
- Snuff
Snuff
3,734 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Sinnkrise“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sinnkrise |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzɪnˌkʁiːzə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,263 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Sinnkrise“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Sinnkrise is uncommon German at frequency #96,263 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈzɪnˌkʁiːzə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "geistig-seelische Problemlage, die nach einer Sinnfindung verlangt".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Sinnkrise, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Sinnkrise, spelled S-I-N-N-K-R-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1geistig-seelische Problemlage, die nach einer Sinnfindung verlangt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sinnkrise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Eine Sinnkrise im Alltag oder Berufsleben kann für den dynamischen Menschen und Sinnsucher ein fruchtbarer Moment, ein Auslöser sein, auf Entdeckungsreise nach Alternativen zu gehen.“
„Für eine Midlife-Crisis bin ich entschieden zu alt. Wahrscheinlich ist es eine allgemeine Sinnkrise, die mich beutelt. Ich liege in meinem schönen Hotelzimmer, schaue hinaus auf den Leuchtturm und frage mich: Was soll das alles?“
Antonyms
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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