überwältigender
[yːbɐˈvɛltɪɡn̩dɐ]
The verdict
“überwältigender” is uncommon German (frequency #61,234 among 443 “Ü” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,234
- frequency rank, German
- 443
- “Ü” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs überwältigend
Corpus desk
Index DE-uberwaltigender · überwältigender · German
überwältigender · rank #61,234 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,234
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 443
- PHOTO-FINISH übertrumpfen
Nearest frequency peer: übertrumpfen (-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 „überwältigender“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- zuzuweisen
zuzuweisen
38,773 corpus weight
- zwielichtige
zwielichtige
38,772 corpus weight
- Überbevölke…
Überbevölkerung
38,770 corpus weight
- übermalt
übermalt
38,769 corpus weight
- übertrumpfen
übertrumpfen
38,768 corpus weight
- überwältige…
überwältigender
38,767 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „überwältigender“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | überwältigender |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [yːbɐˈvɛltɪɡn̩dɐ] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #61,234 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „überwältigender“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
überwältigender is uncommon German at frequency #61,234 among 443 “Ü” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [yːbɐˈvɛltɪɡn̩dɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for überwältigender in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented 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 überwältigender, spelled Ü-B-E-R-W-Ä-L-T-I-G-E-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs überwältigend
- 2Genitiv Singular Femininum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs überwältigend
- 3Dativ Singular Femininum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs überwältigend
- 4Genitiv Plural alle Genera der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs überwältigend
- 5Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs überwältigend
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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