festschrauben
[ˈfɛstˌʃʁaʊ̯bn̩]
The verdict
“festschrauben” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zwei Gegenstände mittels einer Schraube in eine feste Verbindung bringen; eine lose oder lockere Schraube durch Drehen so positionieren, damit sie durch den Pressdruck, den sie bewirkt, fixiert wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-festschrauben · festschrauben · German
festschrauben · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" 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 | festschrauben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈfɛstˌʃʁaʊ̯bn̩] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „festschrauben“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
festschrauben is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈfɛstˌʃʁaʊ̯bn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "zwei Gegenstände mittels einer Schraube in eine feste Verbindung bringen; eine lose oder lockere Schraube durch Drehen so positionieren, damit sie durch den Pressdruck, den sie bewirkt, fixiert wird".
No misspelling variants are generated for festschrauben in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is festschrauben, spelled F-E-S-T-S-C-H-R-A-U-B-E-N.
Definition
- 1zwei Gegenstände mittels einer Schraube in eine feste Verbindung bringen; eine lose oder lockere Schraube durch Drehen so positionieren, damit sie durch den Pressdruck, den sie bewirkt, fixiert wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how festschrauben appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Schraub mal das Blech wieder fest, sonst löst es sich irgendwann ganz.
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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.