dehn
[deːn]
The verdict
“dehn” is uncommon German (frequency #67,117 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,117
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs dehnen
Corpus desk
Index DE-dehn · dehn · German
dehn · rank #67,117 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,117
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH dekorierte
Nearest frequency peer: dekorierte (+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 „dehn“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Deckblatt
Deckblatt
32,887 corpus weight
- definitiven
definitiven
32,886 corpus weight
- dehn
dehn
32,884 corpus weight
- dekorierte
dekorierte
32,883 corpus weight
- Departments
Departments
32,881 corpus weight
- Desktops
Desktops
32,880 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „dehn“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dehn |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [deːn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,117 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „dehn“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
dehn is uncommon German at frequency #67,117 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [deːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dehn, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is dehn, spelled D-E-H-N.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs dehnen
- 21. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs dehnen
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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