vanity
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#58,397
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
vanity is aGermannoun. It means: etwas vollkommen bedeutungsloses, sinnloses, wertloses Pronounced [ˈvænɪti].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vanity |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvænɪti] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #58,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for vanity is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvænɪti]. Corpus data places it at rank #58,397 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for vanity in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is vanity, spelled V-A-N-I-T-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas vollkommen bedeutungsloses, sinnloses, wertloses
- 2die persönliche Eigenschaft, zu sehr auf eigene Errungenschaften und sein Erscheinungsbild bedacht zu sein
- 3aus einem niedrigen Schrank und einem Spiegel bestehendes Möbel
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #58,397 in German
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