expedieren
[ɛkspeˈdiːʁən]
The verdict
“expedieren” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bildungssprachlich: etwas absenden, befördern (und zuvor für den Versand bereiten, abfertigen)
Corpus desk
Index DE-expedieren · expedieren · German
expedieren · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | expedieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛkspeˈdiːʁən] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „expedieren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
expedieren is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ɛkspeˈdiːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for expedieren in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with 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 expedieren, spelled E-X-P-E-D-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1bildungssprachlich: etwas absenden, befördern (und zuvor für den Versand bereiten, abfertigen)
- 2abwertend: jemanden wegschicken, rauswerfen, entlassen; etwas ausrangieren, aussortieren
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how expedieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Da Baldini aber just dieser Tage eine Sendung mit Parfums nach London expedieren wollte, verschob er den Besuch in Notre-Dame und ging stattdessen in die Stadt, […], um die Sendung nach London fürs erste zu stornieren.“
Briefe durch einen Boten expedieren
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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.