vicious
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#86,019
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
vicious is anGermanadj. It means: außerordentlich grausam oder gewalttätig in einer Weise, die geeignet ist, jemandem physischen Schaden zuzufügen Pronounced [ˈvɪʃəs].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vicious |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈvɪʃəs] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,019 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for vicious is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvɪʃəs]. Corpus data places it at rank #86,019 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for vicious 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 vicious, spelled V-I-C-I-O-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1außerordentlich grausam oder gewalttätig in einer Weise, die geeignet ist, jemandem physischen Schaden zuzufügen
- 2extrem unfreundlich oder unangenehm mit der Absicht, jemandes Gefühle zu verletzen oder jemanden abwertend darzustellen
- 3ungewöhnlich streng oder stark, fähig Schaden zu verursachen
- 4keine Moral kennend, von Lastern befallen (als Person); moralisch unakzeptabel (als Absicht oder Handlung)
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #86,019 in German
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