auferlegen

[ˈaʊ̯fʔɛɐ̯ˌleːɡn̩]

/[ˈaʊ̯fʔɛɐ̯ˌleːɡn̩]/ verb

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The verdict

“auferlegen” is uncommon German (frequency #58,571 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#58,571
frequency rank, German
6,976
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - als Aufgabe/Last/Buße zuweisen

Corpus desk

Index DE-auferlegen · auferlegen · German

auferlegen · rank #58,571 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #58,571
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,976
  • PHOTO-FINISH aufeinanderfo…

Nearest frequency peer: aufeinanderfolgende (-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 „auferlegen“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for auferlegen
PropertyValue
Headwordauferlegen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˈaʊ̯fʔɛɐ̯ˌleːɡn̩]
Letters10
Frequency rank#58,571
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „auferlegen“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).auferlegenfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „aufeinanderfolgende“ (#58,570), „auferstandenen“ (#58,572), „aufdeckt“ (#58,569). Unter 6,976 „A“-Lemmata liegt „auferlegen“ bei #58,571. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

auferlegen is uncommon German at frequency #58,571 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈaʊ̯fʔɛɐ̯ˌleːɡn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "als Aufgabe/Last/Buße zuweisen".

No generated misspelling entries exist for auferlegen in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is auferlegen, spelled A-U-F-E-R-L-E-G-E-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    als Aufgabe/Last/Buße zuweisen

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Den Anrainern wurde die Pflicht auferlegt, den Graben in Ordnung zu halten.
  2. Der Klägerin wurden die Kosten des Verfahrens auferlegt.

Antonyms

entlasten

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 "auferlegen"?
"auferlegen" is spelled A-U-F-E-R-L-E-G-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈaʊ̯fʔɛɐ̯ˌleːɡn̩].
What does "auferlegen" mean?
As a verb, "auferlegen" means: als Aufgabe/Last/Buße zuweisen
How do you pronounce "auferlegen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "auferlegen" is [ˈaʊ̯fʔɛɐ̯ˌleːɡn̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "auferlegen" come from?
"auferlegen" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

aufgeheizt#58,573ausbringen#58,577assistance#58,562Badewasser#58,587

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list