ersticht
[ɛɐ̯ˈʃtɪçt]
The verdict
“ersticht” is uncommon German (frequency #67,181 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,181
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs erstechen
Corpus desk
Index DE-ersticht · ersticht · German
ersticht · rank #67,181 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,181
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH erschreckte
Nearest frequency peer: erschreckte (-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 „ersticht“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- erlogen
erlogen
32,823 corpus weight
- Erregern
Erregern
32,822 corpus weight
- erschreckte
erschreckte
32,821 corpus weight
- ersticht
ersticht
32,820 corpus weight
- eruieren
eruieren
32,819 corpus weight
- erweichen
erweichen
32,818 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „ersticht“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ersticht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛɐ̯ˈʃtɪçt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,181 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „ersticht“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
ersticht is uncommon German at frequency #67,181 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ɛɐ̯ˈʃtɪçt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs erstechen".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ersticht in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 ersticht, spelled E-R-S-T-I-C-H-T.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs erstechen
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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