Zeitgefühl

[ˈt͡saɪ̯tɡəˌfyːl]

/[ˈt͡saɪ̯tɡəˌfyːl]/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Zeitgefühl“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Zeitgefühl
PropertyValue
HeadwordZeitgefühl
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈt͡saɪ̯tɡəˌfyːl]
Letters10
Frequency rank#65,908
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Zeitgefühl“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.Zeitgefühlfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Zeitlimit“ (#65,909), „zahnärztlichen“ (#65,906), „zerschlug“ (#65,911). Unter 1,996 „Z“-Lemmata liegt „Zeitgefühl“ bei #65,908. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    gefühlsmäßige Einschätzung der Zeit und/oder ihres Verlaufs

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Zeitgefühl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Er verlor jedes Zeitgefühl.“
  2. „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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Zeitgefühl"?
"Zeitgefühl" is spelled Z-E-I-T-G-E-F-Ü-H-L. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈt͡saɪ̯tɡəˌfyːl].
What does "Zeitgefühl" mean?
As a noun, "Zeitgefühl" means: gefühlsmäßige Einschätzung der Zeit und/oder ihres Verlaufs
How do you pronounce "Zeitgefühl"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Zeitgefühl" is [ˈt͡saɪ̯tɡəˌfyːl]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Zeitgefühl" come from?
"Zeitgefühl" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Zeitgefühl", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list