festsitzen
[ˈfɛstˌzɪt͡sn̩]
The verdict
“festsitzen” is uncommon German (frequency #75,630 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,630
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in einer Position/Stellung bleiben, die fest/starr ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-festsitzen · festsitzen · German
festsitzen · rank #75,630 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,630
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH festo
Nearest frequency peer: festo (-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 „festsitzen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Feldzügen
Feldzügen
24,374 corpus weight
- Fernsehers
Fernsehers
24,373 corpus weight
- festo
festo
24,372 corpus weight
- festsitzen
festsitzen
24,371 corpus weight
- FFW
FFW
24,370 corpus weight
- fidelity
fidelity
24,368 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „festsitzen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | festsitzen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈfɛstˌzɪt͡sn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „festsitzen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
festsitzen is uncommon German at frequency #75,630 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈfɛstˌzɪt͡sn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
festsitzen has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented 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 festsitzen, spelled F-E-S-T-S-I-T-Z-E-N.
Definition
- 1in einer Position/Stellung bleiben, die fest/starr ist
- 2durch bestimmte Umstände einen Ort nicht verlassen können
- 3sehr lange an einem Ort sitzen bleiben
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how festsitzen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Schraube saß fest und wollte sich keinen Millimeter rühren.
„Heute Morgen hat Steinsiek mit einem Bekannten geskypt, der in Venedig festsitzt.“
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).