desertieren
[dezɛʁˈtiːʁən]
The verdict
“desertieren” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich widerrechtlich vom Militärdienst entfernen, fahnenflüchtig werden
Corpus desk
Index DE-desertieren · desertieren · German
desertieren · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" 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 | desertieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [dezɛʁˈtiːʁən] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „desertieren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
desertieren is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [dezɛʁˈtiːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sich widerrechtlich vom Militärdienst entfernen, fahnenflüchtig werden".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for desertieren, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 desertieren, spelled D-E-S-E-R-T-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1sich widerrechtlich vom Militärdienst entfernen, fahnenflüchtig werden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how desertieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Viele Soldaten und Offiziere sind desertiert.
„Diese traumhaften Inseln übten eine derartige Anziehungskraft aus, dass die Seeleute scharenweise desertierten und meuterten.“
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.