feststelle
[ˈfɛstˌʃtɛlə]
The verdict
“feststelle” is uncommon German (frequency #77,960 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,960
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Nebensatzkonjugation des Verbs feststellen
Corpus desk
Index DE-feststelle · feststelle · German
feststelle · rank #77,960 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,960
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH festnageln
Nearest frequency peer: festnageln (-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 „feststelle“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Fernreisen
Fernreisen
22,046 corpus weight
- festliches
festliches
22,043 corpus weight
- festnageln
festnageln
22,042 corpus weight
- feststelle
feststelle
22,041 corpus weight
- figürlichen
figürlichen
22,040 corpus weight
- floralen
floralen
22,037 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „feststelle“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feststelle |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈfɛstˌʃtɛlə] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „feststelle“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
feststelle is uncommon German at frequency #77,960 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈfɛstˌʃtɛlə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for feststelle in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is feststelle, spelled F-E-S-T-S-T-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Nebensatzkonjugation des Verbs feststellen
- 21. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv der Nebensatzkonjugation des Verbs feststellen
- 33. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv der Nebensatzkonjugation des Verbs feststellen
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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