festziehen
[ˈfɛstˌt͡siːən]
The verdict
“festziehen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas fest anziehen oder zusammenziehen
Corpus desk
Index DE-festziehen · festziehen · German
festziehen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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 | festziehen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈfɛstˌt͡siːən] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „festziehen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
festziehen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈfɛstˌt͡siːən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "etwas fest anziehen oder zusammenziehen".
festziehen doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 festziehen, spelled F-E-S-T-Z-I-E-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas fest anziehen oder zusammenziehen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how festziehen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lässt sich eine Schraube nicht mehr festziehen oder herausschrauben, ist in der Regel eines der beiden Gewinde überdreht.
Ziehen Sie den Gurt solange durch, bis er straff um die zu befestigenden Gegenstände liegt. So spannen Sie den Zurrgurt vor, bevor Sie ihn mithilfe der Ratsche ganz festziehen.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.