entlaufen
[ɛntˈlaʊ̯fn̩]
The verdict
“entlaufen” is uncommon German (frequency #68,182 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,182
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich einer Obhut entziehen
Corpus desk
Index DE-entlaufen · entlaufen · German
entlaufen · rank #68,182 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,182
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH enthaupten
Nearest frequency peer: enthaupten (-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 „entlaufen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- energische
energische
31,822 corpus weight
- enthaupten
enthaupten
31,820 corpus weight
- entlaufen
entlaufen
31,819 corpus weight
- entriss
entriss
31,818 corpus weight
- entsandten
entsandten
31,817 corpus weight
- entspannende
entspannende
31,816 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „entlaufen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entlaufen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛntˈlaʊ̯fn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „entlaufen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
entlaufen is uncommon German at frequency #68,182 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ɛntˈlaʊ̯fn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sich einer Obhut entziehen".
Zero misspellings are on record for entlaufen in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 entlaufen, spelled E-N-T-L-A-U-F-E-N.
Definition
- 1sich einer Obhut entziehen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how entlaufen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Viele haben sicher noch die Bilder aus dem georgischen Tiflis im Kopf, als dort im vergangenen Jahr nach einer Überschwemmung ein Tiger entlaufen war und einen Mann tötete.“
Synonyms
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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