tugendhaft
[ˈtuːɡn̩thaft]
The verdict
“tugendhaft” is uncommon German (frequency #81,041 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,041
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - den Sitten entsprechend, sich vorbildlich verhaltend
Corpus desk
Index DE-tugendhaft · tugendhaft · German
tugendhaft · rank #81,041 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,041
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Turmbau
Nearest frequency peer: Turmbau (+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 „tugendhaft“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Trident
Trident
18,965 corpus weight
- tugendhaft
tugendhaft
18,960 corpus weight
- Turmbau
Turmbau
18,959 corpus weight
- Turnbeutel
Turnbeutel
18,958 corpus weight
- Turnerinnen
Turnerinnen
18,957 corpus weight
- Tutte
Tutte
18,956 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „tugendhaft“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tugendhaft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈtuːɡn̩thaft] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „tugendhaft“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
tugendhaft is uncommon German at frequency #81,041 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈtuːɡn̩thaft]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "den Sitten entsprechend, sich vorbildlich verhaltend".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tugendhaft, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 tugendhaft, spelled T-U-G-E-N-D-H-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1den Sitten entsprechend, sich vorbildlich verhaltend
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tugendhaft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Auch Robbespierre hielt sich bekanntlich für einen tugendhaften Menschen, als er all jene, die nicht seinen Tugendvorstellungen entsprachen, auf die Guillotine schickte.“
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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