entwirren
[ɛntˈvɪʁən]
The verdict
“entwirren” is uncommon German (frequency #75,578 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,578
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas, das sich verheddert, verknotet hat, wieder in seine einzelnen Bestandteile zerlegen
Corpus desk
Index DE-entwirren · entwirren · German
entwirren · rank #75,578 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,578
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Entstehungspr…
Nearest frequency peer: Entstehungsprozess (-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 „entwirren“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- entsagen
entsagen
24,426 corpus weight
- Entstehungs…
Entstehungsprozess
24,424 corpus weight
- entwirren
entwirren
24,423 corpus weight
- Epen
Epen
24,422 corpus weight
- Epidermis
Epidermis
24,421 corpus weight
- episches
episches
24,420 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „entwirren“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entwirren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛntˈvɪʁən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,578 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „entwirren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
entwirren is uncommon German at frequency #75,578 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ɛntˈvɪʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for entwirren in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 entwirren, spelled E-N-T-W-I-R-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas, das sich verheddert, verknotet hat, wieder in seine einzelnen Bestandteile zerlegen
- 2eine unklare, undeutliche Situation/Information aufklären oder auch verständlich machen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how entwirren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hilfst du mir, die Wollknäule zu entwirren?
„Sie sollen Haarknoten entwirren, für schönen Glanz sorgen und die Durchblutung der Kopfhaut anregen. Doch welche Haarbürste ist wirklich gut?“
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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