Fertigkeit
\fɛʁtɪçkaɪ̯t\
The verdict
“Fertigkeit” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aptitude acquise par l'expérience (par opposition à une capacité innée, voir Fähigkeit).
Corpus desk
Index FR-fertigkeit · Fertigkeit · French
Fertigkeit · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fertigkeit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛʁtɪçkaɪ̯t\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
Fertigkeit is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɛʁtɪçkaɪ̯t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Aptitude acquise par l'expérience (par opposition à une capacité innée, voir Fähigkeit).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Fertigkeit, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Fertigkeit, spelled F-E-R-T-I-G-K-E-I-T.
Definition
- 1Aptitude acquise par l'expérience (par opposition à une capacité innée, voir Fähigkeit).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Fertigkeit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eigentlich mache ich als Optikerin genau das, was man sich vorstellt (...) Nicht zu unterschätzen sind auch mathematische Fertigkeiten, die man beispielsweise für die Bestimmung von Brennpunkten benötigt.
Töten, das meint auch Fertigkeiten. An dem Tag, da sein Onkel ihn mit auf die Jagd nimmt, stellt Blake fest, dass er alles hat, was er braucht. Drei Schüsse, drei Hasen, eine Art Begabung.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.