dissociate
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The verdict
“dissociate” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - von etwas Abstand nehmen; sich selbst von etwas loslösen, abtrennen
Corpus desk
Index DE-dissociate · dissociate · German
dissociate · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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 | dissociate |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „dissociate“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
dissociate is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dissociate, 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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is dissociate, spelled D-I-S-S-O-C-I-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1von etwas Abstand nehmen; sich selbst von etwas loslösen, abtrennen
- 2Komponenten von einander trennen; Dissoziation vornehmen
- 3sich von einem Verein oder Verband entfernen, zurücktreten
- 4Trennung durchleben
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dissociate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The individual may wish to dissociate itself from the majority.
He tried to dissociate himself from his past.
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.