durchnässen
[dʊʁçˈnɛsn̩]
The verdict
“durchnässen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - vollständig mit Wasser tränken ^([2])
Corpus desk
Index DE-durchnassen · durchnässen · German
durchnässen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 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 | durchnässen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [dʊʁçˈnɛsn̩] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „durchnässen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
durchnässen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [dʊʁçˈnɛsn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "vollständig mit Wasser tränken ^([2])".
No generated misspelling entries exist for durchnässen in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 durchnässen, spelled D-U-R-C-H-N-Ä-S-S-E-N.
Definition
- 1vollständig mit Wasser tränken ^([2])
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how durchnässen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„[Der Regen] durchnässt Stadt und Land, Hütten und Paläste, Arm und Reich, Jung und Alt, Mann und Frau.“
„Alle heiligen Zeiten passieren vom Regen durchnässte Wanderer das Grundstück. Ihnen bietet sie einen Platz im Ziegenstall und macht in der Mitte ein Feuer.“
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.