vážný
[ˈvaːʒɲiː]
The verdict
“vážný” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — charakterlich keine Freude zeigend, an keinem Spaß teilhabend; ernst
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vážný |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈvaːʒɲiː] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vážný” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for vážný is 5 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvaːʒɲiː]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for vážný in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 vážný, spelled V-Á-Ž-N-Ý, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1charakterlich keine Freude zeigend, an keinem Spaß teilhabend; ernst
- 2Befürchtungen erweckend oder folgenschwer seiend; ernst, ernsthaft, schwer, gravierend
- 3auf eine seriöse, wirkliche Auffassung von etwas hinweisend; ernst, seriös, ernsthaft
- 4große Bedeutung habend; ernst
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.
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Using “vážný”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is V-Á-Ž-N-Ý - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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