temporal
[tɛmpoˈʁaːl]
The verdict
“temporal” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Tempus (= Zeit als grammatische oder semantische Kategorie) betreffend
Corpus desk
Index DE-temporal · temporal · German
temporal · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | temporal |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [tɛmpoˈʁaːl] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „temporal“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
temporal is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [tɛmpoˈʁaːl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for temporal, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 temporal, spelled T-E-M-P-O-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1das Tempus (= Zeit als grammatische oder semantische Kategorie) betreffend
- 2schläfenwärts gelegen
- 3den Temporallappen betreffend, zum Temporallappen gehörig
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how temporal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wörter wie "bevor", "nachdem" und "während" sind temporale Subjunktionen im Deutschen.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.