aufreißen
The verdict
“aufreißen” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: transitiv, Hilfsverb haben
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aufreißen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈaʊ̯fˌʁaɪ̯sn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aufreißen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for aufreißen is 9 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaʊ̯fˌʁaɪ̯sn̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for aufreißen in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is aufreißen, spelled A-U-F-R-E-I-S-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1transitiv, Hilfsverb haben
- 2die Verpackung, Hülle von etwas zerreißen und somit den Inhalt offen legen, erreichen können
- 3schnell weit öffnen
- 4mit geeignetem Gerät, mit Werkzeug oder Ähnlichem gewaltsam öffnen
- 5so beschädigen, dass ein Loch, ein Riss entsteht
- 6die Abwehrspieler so beschäftigen, ablenken, dass ein Durchbruch möglich ist
- 7jemanden ansprechen und so kurzfristig als Sexpartner gewinnen
- 8durch bestimmte Anstrengungen erreichen, dass man etwas bekommt
- 9nach oben, in die Höhe reißen
- 10eine Ansicht oder einen Schnitt eines Objekts zeichnen
- 11zusammenfassend, im Überblick kurz beschreiben
- 12intransitiv, Hilfsverb sein
- 13unversehens aufgehen, sich plötzlich öffnen (eventuell durch Druck, Schlag oder Ähnlichem)
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Using “aufreißen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-U-F-R-E-I-S-S-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈaʊ̯fˌʁaɪ̯sn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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