enteignen
[ɛntˈʔaɪ̯ɡnən]
The verdict
“enteignen” is uncommon German (frequency #71,280 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,280
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemandes Eigentum entziehen, vor allem durch staatliche Eingriffe
Corpus desk
Index DE-enteignen · enteignen · German
enteignen · rank #71,280 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,280
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Enkelkindern
Nearest frequency peer: Enkelkindern (-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 „enteignen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Energiebera…
Energieberater
28,724 corpus weight
- Energieprei…
Energiepreise
28,723 corpus weight
- Enkelkindern
Enkelkindern
28,722 corpus weight
- enteignen
enteignen
28,721 corpus weight
- entfesselte
entfesselte
28,719 corpus weight
- entgegenkom…
entgegenkommend
28,718 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „enteignen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enteignen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛntˈʔaɪ̯ɡnən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „enteignen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
enteignen is uncommon German at frequency #71,280 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ɛntˈʔaɪ̯ɡnən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "jemandes Eigentum entziehen, vor allem durch staatliche Eingriffe".
enteignen doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 enteignen, spelled E-N-T-E-I-G-N-E-N.
Definition
- 1jemandes Eigentum entziehen, vor allem durch staatliche Eingriffe
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how enteignen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„In den Jahren 1945-1946 wurde in der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone (SBZ) eine Bodenreform durchgeführt, in deren Verlauf Großgrundbesitzer mit mehr als 100 ha Fläche und Besitzer, die als Kriegsverbrecher und aktive NSDAP-Mitglieder eingestuft waren, entschädigungslos enteignet wurden.“
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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