demolieren
[demoˈliːʁən]
The verdict
“demolieren” is uncommon German (frequency #81,424 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,424
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - einer Sache mit Absicht Schaden zufügen
Corpus desk
Index DE-demolieren · demolieren · German
demolieren · rank #81,424 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,424
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH deklarierten
Nearest frequency peer: deklarierten (-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 „demolieren“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- dekadenten
dekadenten
18,580 corpus weight
- Dekanin
Dekanin
18,579 corpus weight
- deklarierten
deklarierten
18,578 corpus weight
- demolieren
demolieren
18,577 corpus weight
- depuis
depuis
18,576 corpus weight
- deskriptive
deskriptive
18,575 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „demolieren“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | demolieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [demoˈliːʁən] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „demolieren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
demolieren is uncommon German at frequency #81,424 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [demoˈliːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "einer Sache mit Absicht Schaden zufügen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for demolieren, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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 demolieren, spelled D-E-M-O-L-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1einer Sache mit Absicht Schaden zufügen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how demolieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die für den Bezirk zuständige Richterin hatte es satt, dass vor allem junge Männer, die klauen, Lehrer angreifen, Jüngere ‚abziehen‘ und Telefonzellen demolieren, erst Monate später vor ihr auf der Anklagebank saßen und sich dann kaum noch erinnern konnten.“
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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