berauschen
[bəˈʁaʊ̯ʃn̩]
The verdict
“berauschen” is uncommon German (frequency #92,666 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,666
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - einen die Sinne verwirrenden Zustand (Rausch) schaffen/erlangen
Corpus desk
Index DE-berauschen · berauschen · German
berauschen · rank #92,666 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,666
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Berching
Nearest frequency peer: Berching (+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 „berauschen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Bengalische
Bengalische
7,339 corpus weight
- Beo
Beo
7,338 corpus weight
- beorderte
beorderte
7,337 corpus weight
- berauschen
berauschen
7,335 corpus weight
- Berching
Berching
7,334 corpus weight
- bereitgehal…
bereitgehalten
7,333 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „berauschen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | berauschen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈʁaʊ̯ʃn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #92,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „berauschen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
berauschen is uncommon German at frequency #92,666 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [bəˈʁaʊ̯ʃn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for berauschen in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 berauschen, spelled B-E-R-A-U-S-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1einen die Sinne verwirrenden Zustand (Rausch) schaffen/erlangen
- 2starke positive Gefühle schaffen, zum Beispiel das Empfinden von Sieg, Macht oder Glückseligkeit
- 3sich nicht satt sehen können und mehr von etwas haben wollen, weil es starke positive Gefühle schafft
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how berauschen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Andererseits benebelt und berauscht Wein und schwächt so den Willen, oder er bringt einen in Ekstase.“
„Schon oft haben wir es in der Weltgeschichte gesehen, wie der Besitz der Macht berauscht.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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