cruisen
[ˈkʁuːzn̩]
The verdict
“cruisen” is uncommon German (frequency #76,652 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,652
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - meist ohne bestimmtes Ziel und gleichbleibender, langsamer Geschwindigkeit herumfahren oder herumgehen, um andere zu sehen oder um selbst gesehen zu werden
Corpus desk
Index DE-cruisen · cruisen · German
cruisen · rank #76,652 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,652
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH crying
Nearest frequency peer: crying (+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 „cruisen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Containers
Containers
23,354 corpus weight
- contracts
contracts
23,353 corpus weight
- Cracks
Cracks
23,351 corpus weight
- cruisen
cruisen
23,349 corpus weight
- crying
crying
23,348 corpus weight
- currency
currency
23,346 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „cruisen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cruisen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈkʁuːzn̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,652 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „cruisen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
cruisen is uncommon German at frequency #76,652 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈkʁuːzn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cruisen has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 cruisen, spelled C-R-U-I-S-E-N.
Definition
- 1meist ohne bestimmtes Ziel und gleichbleibender, langsamer Geschwindigkeit herumfahren oder herumgehen, um andere zu sehen oder um selbst gesehen zu werden
- 2herumgehen und jemanden für schnellen Sex suchen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cruisen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gestern sind wir mit dem Auto durch die City gecruist.
„Denn Isländer lieben es, gemütlich durch das Land zu cruisen.“
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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