subject
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The verdict
“subject” is uncommon German (frequency #50,914 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,914
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - einer Gewalt, Autorität, Verpflichtung untergeordnet, unterworfen; von etwas betroffen (zum Beispiel einer Krankheit); einem anderen Umstand nachfolgend, nachgeordnet
Corpus desk
Index DE-subject · subject · German
subject · rank #50,914 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,914
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH störten
Nearest frequency peer: störten (-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 „subject“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- struggle
struggle
49,090 corpus weight
- strukturell…
struktureller
49,089 corpus weight
- störten
störten
49,088 corpus weight
- subject
subject
49,087 corpus weight
- Supercomput…
Supercomputer
49,086 corpus weight
- Süppchen
Süppchen
49,084 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „subject“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | subject |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „subject“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
subject is uncommon German at frequency #50,914 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for subject in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is subject, spelled S-U-B-J-E-C-T.
Definition
- 1einer Gewalt, Autorität, Verpflichtung untergeordnet, unterworfen; von etwas betroffen (zum Beispiel einer Krankheit); einem anderen Umstand nachfolgend, nachgeordnet
- 2unter der politischen Kontrolle eines anderen Staates
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how subject appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
These distributions are subject to tax. He is subject to colds.
“[…] the Visigoths became annoyed at being treated as a subject people and repeatedly revolted […].”
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).