durchbohren
[ˈdʊʁçˌboːʁən]
The verdict
“durchbohren” is uncommon German (frequency #69,134 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,134
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - von der einen Seite auf die andere Seite bohren und so eine Öffnung herstellen
Corpus desk
Index DE-durchbohren · durchbohren · German
durchbohren · rank #69,134 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,134
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH dunkelste
Nearest frequency peer: dunkelste (-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 „durchbohren“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Druckschrift
Druckschrift
30,870 corpus weight
- Dunkelkammer
Dunkelkammer
30,869 corpus weight
- dunkelste
dunkelste
30,868 corpus weight
- durchbohren
durchbohren
30,867 corpus weight
- durchgewunk…
durchgewunken
30,865 corpus weight
- durchschnei…
durchschneidet
30,864 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „durchbohren“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | durchbohren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈdʊʁçˌboːʁən] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #69,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „durchbohren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
durchbohren is uncommon German at frequency #69,134 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈdʊʁçˌboːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "von der einen Seite auf die andere Seite bohren und so eine Öffnung herstellen".
No generated misspelling entries exist for durchbohren in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is durchbohren, spelled D-U-R-C-H-B-O-H-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1von der einen Seite auf die andere Seite bohren und so eine Öffnung herstellen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how durchbohren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Als erstes haben wir die Wand zwischen Küche und Esszimmer durchgebohrt.
Durch den Stein habe ich versucht, ein Loch durchzubohren, weil ich ihn an einer langen Silberkette tragen wollte.
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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