durchboxen
[ˈdʊʁçˌbɔksn̩]
The verdict
“durchboxen” 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) - etwas erhalten/gewinnen/durchsetzen, indem man im Kampf, Streit, Prozess Einsatz zeigt
Corpus desk
Index DE-durchboxen · durchboxen · German
durchboxen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | durchboxen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈdʊʁçˌbɔksn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „durchboxen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
durchboxen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈdʊʁçˌbɔksn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for durchboxen in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 durchboxen, spelled D-U-R-C-H-B-O-X-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas erhalten/gewinnen/durchsetzen, indem man im Kampf, Streit, Prozess Einsatz zeigt
- 2von Tag zu Tag überleben
- 3sich mit körperlicher Kraft einen Weg durch eine Menschenmenge bahnen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how durchboxen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Auf der Versammlung des Vereins wurde der ungeliebte Kompromiss gegen alle Widerstände durchgeboxt.
Sie boxte sich nach der Scheidung und dem Umzug, so gut es eben ging, durch.
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.