enttarnen
[ɛntˈtaʁnən]
The verdict
“enttarnen” is uncommon German (frequency #71,285 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,285
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas vorher Unbekanntes bekannt machen; öffentlich machen
Corpus desk
Index DE-enttarnen · enttarnen · German
enttarnen · rank #71,285 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,285
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH entlegene
Nearest frequency peer: entlegene (-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 „enttarnen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- entfesselte
entfesselte
28,719 corpus weight
- entgegenkom…
entgegenkommend
28,718 corpus weight
- entlegene
entlegene
28,717 corpus weight
- enttarnen
enttarnen
28,716 corpus weight
- entzweit
entzweit
28,715 corpus weight
- erbarmt
erbarmt
28,714 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „enttarnen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enttarnen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛntˈtaʁnən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,285 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „enttarnen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
enttarnen is uncommon German at frequency #71,285 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ɛntˈtaʁnən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "etwas vorher Unbekanntes bekannt machen; öffentlich machen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for enttarnen, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is enttarnen, spelled E-N-T-T-A-R-N-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas vorher Unbekanntes bekannt machen; öffentlich machen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enttarnen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Selbst der Uni-Rektor wurde als Stasi-Spitzel enttarnt.
„Ihre [die US-Gäste des Moskauer Hotels ‘President‘] Identität und Funktion enttarnte die Washington Post zwei Tage vor der Stichwahl, zu spät für einen Gegenschlag der Kommunisten und Nationalisten Rußlands: Amerikaner hatten Boris Jelzins Wahlfeldzug organisiert.“
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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