durchkreuzen
[ˈdʊʁçˌkʁɔɪ̯t͡sn̩]
The verdict
“durchkreuzen” is uncommon German (frequency #64,204 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,204
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wörter, Buchstaben in einem Text mit Kreuzen (×) unleserlich, ungültig machen
Corpus desk
Index DE-durchkreuzen · durchkreuzen · German
durchkreuzen · rank #64,204 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,204
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH durchgerechnet
Nearest frequency peer: durchgerechnet (-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 „durchkreuzen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- ducks
ducks
35,800 corpus weight
- dumpfes
dumpfes
35,799 corpus weight
- durchgerech…
durchgerechnet
35,798 corpus weight
- durchkreuzen
durchkreuzen
35,797 corpus weight
- Durchschnit…
Durchschnittstemperatur
35,796 corpus weight
- Dynamiken
Dynamiken
35,794 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „durchkreuzen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „durchkreuzen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
durchkreuzen is uncommon German at frequency #64,204 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈdʊʁçˌkʁɔɪ̯t͡sn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how durchkreuzen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bitte kreuzen Sie die nicht zutreffende Anrede durch!
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "durchkreuzen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).