confine
[kənˈfaɪn]
The verdict
“confine” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - begrenzen, beschränken, einschränken
Corpus desk
Index DE-confine · confine · German
confine · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | confine |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kənˈfaɪn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „confine“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
confine is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [kənˈfaɪn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for confine in our index, 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 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 confine, spelled C-O-N-F-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1begrenzen, beschränken, einschränken
- 2einsperren, einschließen, verbannen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how confine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She confined her remarks to errors in the report.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.