vulgär
[vʊlˈɡɛːɐ̯]
The verdict
“vulgär” is uncommon German (frequency #50,178 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,178
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die kulturellen, sittlichen Konventionen der Gesellschaft verletzend
Corpus desk
Index DE-vulgar · vulgär · German
vulgär · rank #50,178 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,178
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH vorzuschreiben
Nearest frequency peer: vorzuschreiben (-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 „vulgär“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Vorreiterro…
Vorreiterrolle
49,826 corpus weight
- vorzuhalten
vorzuhalten
49,825 corpus weight
- vorzuschrei…
vorzuschreiben
49,824 corpus weight
- vulgär
vulgär
49,823 corpus weight
- Völklingen
Völklingen
49,822 corpus weight
- wackelig
wackelig
49,821 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „vulgär“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vulgär |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [vʊlˈɡɛːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „vulgär“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
vulgär is uncommon German at frequency #50,178 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [vʊlˈɡɛːɐ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
vulgär doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is vulgär, spelled V-U-L-G-Ä-R.
Definition
- 1die kulturellen, sittlichen Konventionen der Gesellschaft verletzend
- 2gewöhnlich, im Sinne von schlicht, unqualifiziert, nicht wissenschaftlich dargestellt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vulgär appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Drecksau“ z.B. ist ein recht vulgäres Schimpfwort.
„Doch selbst in der Darstellung des Gröbsten in den gröbsten Worten, des Vulgärsten in den vulgärsten Worten, darf ein Dichter den Sinn und die Gedanken eines poetischen Werkes nicht vergröbern oder vulgarisieren.“
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); 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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