disziplinieren
[dɪst͡sipliˈniːʁən]
The verdict
“disziplinieren” is uncommon German (frequency #96,847 among 45,632 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,847
- frequency rank, German
- 45,632
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - jemanden zur Ordnung erziehen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | disziplinieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [dɪst͡sipliˈniːʁən] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #96,847 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “disziplinieren” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
disziplinieren is uncommon German at frequency #96,847 among 45,632 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [dɪst͡sipliˈniːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "jemanden zur Ordnung erziehen".
No misspelling variants are generated for disziplinieren in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is disziplinieren, spelled D-I-S-Z-I-P-L-I-N-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1jemanden zur Ordnung erziehen
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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Using “disziplinieren”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is D-I-S-Z-I-P-L-I-N-I-E-R-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.