aufflammen
[ˈaʊ̯fˌflamən]
The verdict
“aufflammen” is uncommon German (frequency #87,419 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,419
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aus der Glut wieder eine sichtbare Flamme produzieren
Corpus desk
Index DE-aufflammen · aufflammen · German
aufflammen · rank #87,419 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,419
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH aufbewahrte
Nearest frequency peer: aufbewahrte (-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 „aufflammen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- atomar
atomar
12,584 corpus weight
- aufbewahrte
aufbewahrte
12,583 corpus weight
- aufflammen
aufflammen
12,582 corpus weight
- aufgehobenen
aufgehobenen
12,581 corpus weight
- Aufhellung
Aufhellung
12,580 corpus weight
- Auflehnung
Auflehnung
12,579 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „aufflammen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aufflammen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈaʊ̯fˌflamən] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #87,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „aufflammen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
aufflammen is uncommon German at frequency #87,419 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈaʊ̯fˌflamən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for aufflammen, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 aufflammen, spelled A-U-F-F-L-A-M-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1aus der Glut wieder eine sichtbare Flamme produzieren
- 2(nach einer Zeit der Ruhe wieder oder plötzlich aus dem Nichts) aktuell werden
- 3als Lichtpunkt (zum Beispiel einer Flamme) kurz sichtbar werden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aufflammen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das fast niedergebrannte Feuer flammte wieder auf, als ein scharfer Wind aufkam.
Na, ist deine Leidenschaft für das Humanistische wieder aufgeflammt?
Antonyms
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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