Zeitgefühl
[ˈt͡saɪ̯tɡəˌfyːl]
The verdict
“Zeitgefühl” is uncommon German (frequency #65,908 among 1,996 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,908
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gefühlsmäßige Einschätzung der Zeit und/oder ihres Verlaufs
Corpus desk
Index DE-zeitgefuhl · Zeitgefühl · German
Zeitgefühl · rank #65,908 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,908
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH Zeitlimit
Nearest frequency peer: Zeitlimit (+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 „Zeitgefühl“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- wässern
wässern
34,099 corpus weight
- zahnärztlic…
zahnärztlichen
34,095 corpus weight
- Zeitgefühl
Zeitgefühl
34,093 corpus weight
- Zeitlimit
Zeitlimit
34,092 corpus weight
- zerschlug
zerschlug
34,090 corpus weight
- zivilrechtl…
zivilrechtlich
34,088 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Zeitgefühl“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zeitgefühl |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡saɪ̯tɡəˌfyːl] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Zeitgefühl“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Zeitgefühl is uncommon German at frequency #65,908 among 1,996 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈt͡saɪ̯tɡəˌfyːl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "gefühlsmäßige Einschätzung der Zeit und/oder ihres Verlaufs".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Zeitgefühl, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Zeitgefühl, spelled Z-E-I-T-G-E-F-Ü-H-L.
Definition
- 1gefühlsmäßige Einschätzung der Zeit und/oder ihres Verlaufs
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Zeitgefühl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Er verlor jedes Zeitgefühl.“
„Mein Zeitgefühl ist dahin: Überall brennen schon Lichter.“
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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