festschreiben
[ˈfɛstˌʃʁaɪ̯bn̩]
The verdict
“festschreiben” is uncommon German (frequency #99,780 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,780
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas ein für alle Mal regeln
Corpus desk
Index DE-festschreiben · festschreiben · German
festschreiben · rank #99,780 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,780
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH festgehaltene
Nearest frequency peer: festgehaltene (-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 „festschreiben“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Fernunterri…
Fernunterricht
224 corpus weight
- Fernverkehrs
Fernverkehrs
223 corpus weight
- festgehalte…
festgehaltene
222 corpus weight
- festschreib…
festschreiben
221 corpus weight
- feststellst
feststellst
220 corpus weight
- fettiges
fettiges
219 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „festschreiben“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | festschreiben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈfɛstˌʃʁaɪ̯bn̩] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #99,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „festschreiben“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
festschreiben is uncommon German at frequency #99,780 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈfɛstˌʃʁaɪ̯bn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "etwas ein für alle Mal regeln".
No generated misspelling entries exist for festschreiben in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 festschreiben, spelled F-E-S-T-S-C-H-R-E-I-B-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas ein für alle Mal regeln
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how festschreiben appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Länder können die Rundfunkgebühr nicht selbst festsetzen oder diese für alle Zeit bei 17.98 Euro festschreiben.“
Dabei wird der Arbeitgeberanteil, der bislang bei sieben Prozent liegt, bei 7,3 Prozent festgeschrieben.
This word in other languages
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).