Typographie
[typoɡʁaˈfiː]
The verdict
“Typographie” is uncommon German (frequency #84,687 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,687
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Kunst des Druckens; Wissenschaft und Lehre vom reproduzierbaren Schriftbild
Corpus desk
Index DE-typographie · Typographie · German
Typographie · rank #84,687 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,687
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Trägerinnen
Nearest frequency peer: Trägerinnen (-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 „Typographie“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Tresore
Tresore
15,317 corpus weight
- Troubadour
Troubadour
15,316 corpus weight
- Trägerinnen
Trägerinnen
15,315 corpus weight
- Typographie
Typographie
15,314 corpus weight
- tätiges
tätiges
15,313 corpus weight
- Tätigkeitsb…
Tätigkeitsbereich
15,312 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Typographie“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Typographie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [typoɡʁaˈfiː] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #84,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Typographie“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Typographie is uncommon German at frequency #84,687 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [typoɡʁaˈfiː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Typographie in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Typographie, spelled T-Y-P-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E.
Definition
- 1die Kunst des Druckens; Wissenschaft und Lehre vom reproduzierbaren Schriftbild
- 2die konkrete Gestaltung eines Druckerzeugnisses
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Typographie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ein gutes Beispiel für die praktische Relevanz von Buchstabenstatistiken ist Proskurnin (1933), der im Zusammenhang mit der staatlichen Normierung von Drucksätzen für Typographien und angesichts eines zu dieser Zeit herrschenden Mangels an Buntmetallen den ökonomischen und rationellen Einsatz von Drucktypen diskutiert.“
„Seit dem 17. Jahrhundert kennen wir den Begriff Typographie im heutigen Sinn. Er umschreibt die Tätigkeit, die aus Schrift, Raumaufteilung, Material und Druck ein schönes Buch werden läßt.“
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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