echauffieren
[eʃɔˈfiːʁən]
The verdict
“echauffieren” is uncommon German (frequency #64,209 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,209
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (einem) durch etwas Anstrengendes oder Aufregendes heiß werden
Corpus desk
Index DE-echauffieren · echauffieren · German
echauffieren · rank #64,209 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,209
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Döbeln
Nearest frequency peer: Döbeln (-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 „echauffieren“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Durchschnit…
Durchschnittstemperatur
35,796 corpus weight
- Dynamiken
Dynamiken
35,794 corpus weight
- Döbeln
Döbeln
35,793 corpus weight
- echauffieren
echauffieren
35,792 corpus weight
- eingestochen
eingestochen
35,790 corpus weight
- einmarschie…
einmarschiert
35,788 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „echauffieren“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | echauffieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [eʃɔˈfiːʁən] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #64,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „echauffieren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
echauffieren is uncommon German at frequency #64,209 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [eʃɔˈfiːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
echauffieren doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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, 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 echauffieren, spelled E-C-H-A-U-F-F-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1(einem) durch etwas Anstrengendes oder Aufregendes heiß werden
- 2in beunruhigende Erregung versetzen; sich ereifern, sein Gemüt erhitzen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how echauffieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Mademoiselles rechte Wange noch rot vom Mittagsschlaf, mit der eingepreßten Struktur der Schlummerrolle. Sie war wie immer echauffiert. Sie knickte geziert, erschöpft in den Schaukelstuhl.“
„Einige Zeit nachher folgte die Fortsetzung, diesmal in dem kleinen Zimmer des Oberaufsehers, in das ich hinuntergeholt wurde, wahrscheinlich damit der alte Herr sich nicht durch Treppensteigen zu echauffieren brauchte.“
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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