disturb
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The verdict
“disturb” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - stören, behindern, belästigen, beunruhigen, aufschrecken, aufscheuchen, durcheinanderbringen, in Unordnung bringen
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Index DE-disturb · disturb · German
disturb · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | disturb |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „disturb“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
disturb is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "stören, behindern, belästigen, beunruhigen, aufschrecken, aufscheuchen, durcheinanderbringen, in Unordnung bringen".
disturb has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is disturb, spelled D-I-S-T-U-R-B.
Definition
- 1stören, behindern, belästigen, beunruhigen, aufschrecken, aufscheuchen, durcheinanderbringen, in Unordnung bringen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how disturb appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He disturbed their neighbours wedding party.
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.