wortkarg
[ˈvɔʁtˌkaʁk]
The verdict
“wortkarg” is uncommon German (frequency #88,542 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,542
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit nur wenigen Worten, mit Worten sparsam
Corpus desk
Index DE-wortkarg · wortkarg · German
wortkarg · rank #88,542 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,542
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH wrecking
Nearest frequency peer: wrecking (+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 „wortkarg“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- wochenlange
wochenlange
11,462 corpus weight
- Wohlgefühl
Wohlgefühl
11,461 corpus weight
- wortkarg
wortkarg
11,459 corpus weight
- wrecking
wrecking
11,458 corpus weight
- wuchert
wuchert
11,457 corpus weight
- Wurzelbehan…
Wurzelbehandlung
11,456 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „wortkarg“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wortkarg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈvɔʁtˌkaʁk] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „wortkarg“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
wortkarg is uncommon German at frequency #88,542 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈvɔʁtˌkaʁk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mit nur wenigen Worten, mit Worten sparsam".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for wortkarg, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 wortkarg, spelled W-O-R-T-K-A-R-G.
Definition
- 1mit nur wenigen Worten, mit Worten sparsam
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wortkarg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er ist meistens sehr wortkarg.
Die Antwort fiel ausgesprochen wortkarg aus.
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Antonyms
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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