ersehnen
[ɛɐ̯ˈzeːnən]
The verdict
“ersehnen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich sehr wünschen, dass eine bestimmte Situation eintrifft, etwas Bestimmtes Wirklichkeit wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-ersehnen · ersehnen · German
ersehnen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ersehnen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛɐ̯ˈzeːnən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „ersehnen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
ersehnen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ɛɐ̯ˈzeːnən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sich sehr wünschen, dass eine bestimmte Situation eintrifft, etwas Bestimmtes Wirklichkeit wird".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ersehnen, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is ersehnen, spelled E-R-S-E-H-N-E-N.
Definition
- 1sich sehr wünschen, dass eine bestimmte Situation eintrifft, etwas Bestimmtes Wirklichkeit wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ersehnen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„So wird geschehen, was du dir ersehnst, was der Wunsch deiner Seele ist.“
„Er warf geschmeichelt den Kopf zurück und rieb sich erfreut die Brust, ein Mann, der endlich mal und völlig unverhofft die heimlich ersehnte Anerkennung findet.“
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.