durchkreuzen
[ˈdʊʁçˌkʁɔɪ̯t͡sn̩]
The verdict
“durchkreuzen” is an uncommon German word, ranked #64,204 in German word frequency and used as a verb.
- #64,204
- frequency rank, German
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Wörter, Buchstaben in einem Text mit Kreuzen (×) unleserlich, ungültig machen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | durchkreuzen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈdʊʁçˌkʁɔɪ̯t͡sn̩] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #64,204 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “durchkreuzen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for durchkreuzen is 12 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈdʊʁçˌkʁɔɪ̯t͡sn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #64,204 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Wörter, Buchstaben in einem Text mit Kreuzen (×) unleserlich, ungültig machen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for durchkreuzen, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 durchkreuzen, spelled D-U-R-C-H-K-R-E-U-Z-E-N.
Definition
- 1Wörter, Buchstaben in einem Text mit Kreuzen (×) unleserlich, ungültig machen
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 “durchkreuzen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is D-U-R-C-H-K-R-E-U-Z-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈdʊʁçˌkʁɔɪ̯t͡sn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
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.