festlegen
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,717
in German word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
festlegen is aGermanverb. It means: einen verbindlichen Beschluss fassen, eine verbindliche Entscheidung treffen; durch verbindliche Regeln, Vorschriften bestimmen, verordnen; verbindlich festsetzen Pronounced [ˈfɛstˌleːɡn̩]. It ranks #9,717 in German word frequency. Often confused with festlegt and Festungen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | festlegen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈfɛstˌleːɡn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for festlegen is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfɛstˌleːɡn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,717 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for festlegen, with forms such as "efstlegen", "fesltegen", and "fesstlegen". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "festlegt", "Festungen", "Festlegung", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is festlegen, spelled F-E-S-T-L-E-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1einen verbindlichen Beschluss fassen, eine verbindliche Entscheidung treffen; durch verbindliche Regeln, Vorschriften bestimmen, verordnen; verbindlich festsetzen
- 2von jemandem eine bindende Auskunft oder Zusage erwarten, verlangen; von jemandem erwarten, verlangen, dass er das tut beziehungsweise sich an das hält, was er gesagt, versprochen hat
- 3etwas ganz fest zusagen (lassen); versprechen (lassen), etwas zu tun; (jemanden, sich) an, für etwas fest binden, verpflichten (lassen)
- 4jemanden für etwas verantwortlich machen, jemandem die Schuld an etwas zuschreiben
- 5(einen Geldbetrag) für längere Zeit fest und sicher (zum Beispiel in Sachgütern) anlegen
- 6(ein Wasserfahrzeug) ankern oder an einer Anlegestelle mit Tauen vor dem Abtreiben sichern
- 7(etwas, jemanden, sich) an, auf etwas fest anbringen
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: efstlegen,fesltegen,fesstlegen,festelgen,festleegn,festlegenn,festleggen,festlegne,festlgeen,festllegen,festtlegen,fetslegen,ffestlegen,fsetlegen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for festlegen
Misspelling Variants of "festlegen"
Frequency rank: #9,717 in German
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