festschreiben

[ˈfɛstˌʃʁaɪ̯bn̩]

/[ˈfɛstˌʃʁaɪ̯bn̩]/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „festschreiben“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for festschreiben
PropertyValue
Headwordfestschreiben
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˈfɛstˌʃʁaɪ̯bn̩]
Letters13
Frequency rank#99,780
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „festschreiben“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).festschreibenfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „festgehaltene“ (#99,779), „feststellst“ (#99,781), „Fernverkehrs“ (#99,778). Unter 3,474 „F“-Lemmata liegt „festschreiben“ bei #99,780. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    etwas ein für alle Mal regeln

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how festschreiben appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Die Länder können die Rundfunkgebühr nicht selbst festsetzen oder diese für alle Zeit bei 17.98 Euro festschreiben.“
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "festschreiben"?
"festschreiben" is spelled F-E-S-T-S-C-H-R-E-I-B-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈfɛstˌʃʁaɪ̯bn̩].
What does "festschreiben" mean?
As a verb, "festschreiben" means: etwas ein für alle Mal regeln
How do you pronounce "festschreiben"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "festschreiben" is [ˈfɛstˌʃʁaɪ̯bn̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "festschreiben" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "festschreiben", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list