fortsterben
[ˈfɔʁtˌʃtɛʁbn̩]
The verdict
“fortsterben” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (allmählich, aber auch plötzlich) aufhören zu leben
Corpus desk
Index DE-fortsterben · fortsterben · German
fortsterben · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | fortsterben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈfɔʁtˌʃtɛʁbn̩] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „fortsterben“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
fortsterben is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈfɔʁtˌʃtɛʁbn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(allmählich, aber auch plötzlich) aufhören zu leben".
No misspelling variants are generated for fortsterben in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is fortsterben, spelled F-O-R-T-S-T-E-R-B-E-N.
Definition
- 1(allmählich, aber auch plötzlich) aufhören zu leben
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fortsterben appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wenn er an Meta dachte, dann war es ihm selbst verwunderlich, wie wenig bange ihm nach ihr war, vorzüglich, wenn er bedachte, wie glücklich er mit ihr gewesen war, ehe daß die Mutter fortstarb.“
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