appear
[əpɪə(r)]
The verdict
“appear” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sichtbar werden, erscheinen, auftauchen
Corpus desk
Index DE-appear · appear · German
appear · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" 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 | appear |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [əpɪə(r)] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „appear“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
appear is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [əpɪə(r)]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
appear has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is appear, spelled A-P-P-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1sichtbar werden, erscheinen, auftauchen
- 2ankommen
- 3auftreten (in der Öffentlichkeit), sich präsentieren
- 4vor Gericht, vor einem Rat, vor einer Behörde auftreten (als Zeuge, Fachberater, Angeklagter)
- 5erscheinen, publizieren, drucken (eines Buches, Artikel und so weiter)
- 6den Eindruck erwecken, erscheinen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how appear appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A ship appeared on the horizon.
He promised to be here at four o'clock, but didn't appear until six.
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.