entwachsen
[ɛntˈvaksn̩]
The verdict
“entwachsen” is uncommon German (frequency #67,175 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,175
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich so weiterentwickeln (wachsen), dass etwas Altes, zum Beispiel eine bisherige Rolle/Beurteilung/Bekleidung, nicht mehr zutrifft/passt
Corpus desk
Index DE-entwachsen · entwachsen · German
entwachsen · rank #67,175 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,175
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH entstünde
Nearest frequency peer: entstünde (-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 „entwachsen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- engines
engines
32,830 corpus weight
- entkoppelt
entkoppelt
32,829 corpus weight
- Entscheidun…
Entscheidungsspiel
32,828 corpus weight
- entstünde
entstünde
32,827 corpus weight
- entwachsen
entwachsen
32,826 corpus weight
- erlogen
erlogen
32,823 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „entwachsen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entwachsen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛntˈvaksn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „entwachsen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
entwachsen is uncommon German at frequency #67,175 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ɛntˈvaksn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
entwachsen has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is entwachsen, spelled E-N-T-W-A-C-H-S-E-N.
Definition
- 1sich so weiterentwickeln (wachsen), dass etwas Altes, zum Beispiel eine bisherige Rolle/Beurteilung/Bekleidung, nicht mehr zutrifft/passt
- 2aus etwas heraus entstehen, sich neu bilden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how entwachsen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nun ist auch seine jüngste Tochter den Teenieschwärmereien entwachsen.
Sie entwuchs ihrer Kindheit schneller, als andere Mädchen.
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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