aufheizen
[ˈaʊ̯fˌhaɪ̯t͡sn̩]
The verdict
“aufheizen” is uncommon German (frequency #78,888 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,888
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Temperatur (von außen) steigern
Corpus desk
Index DE-aufheizen · aufheizen · German
aufheizen · rank #78,888 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,888
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH aufgespannt
Nearest frequency peer: aufgespannt (-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 „aufheizen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Atomraketen
Atomraketen
21,117 corpus weight
- Audits
Audits
21,115 corpus weight
- aufgespannt
aufgespannt
21,114 corpus weight
- aufheizen
aufheizen
21,113 corpus weight
- Aufstiege
Aufstiege
21,112 corpus weight
- auftreffen
auftreffen
21,111 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „aufheizen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aufheizen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈaʊ̯fˌhaɪ̯t͡sn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,888 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „aufheizen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
aufheizen is uncommon German at frequency #78,888 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈaʊ̯fˌhaɪ̯t͡sn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for aufheizen in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 aufheizen, spelled A-U-F-H-E-I-Z-E-N.
Definition
- 1die Temperatur (von außen) steigern
- 2an Temperatur zunehmen
- 3an Spannung zunehmen (lassen)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aufheizen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Nach dem Erkalten gießt man in 1,5 l Wasser, heizt auf 80° auf, filtriert das unveränderte Anthrachinon ab und wäscht es mit wenig heißem Wasser.“
„Die dunkle Farbe absorbiert das Licht, wandelt es in Wärme um - ähnlich wie sich ein schwarzes Auto in der Sonne mächtig aufheizt.“
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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