fortwälzen
[ˈfɔʁtˌvɛlt͡sn̩]
The verdict
“fortwälzen” 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 (unter großem Kraftaufwand) von einer Stelle, einem Ort wegrollen/wegschieben
Corpus desk
Index DE-fortwalzen · fortwälzen · German
fortwälzen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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 | fortwälzen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈfɔʁtˌvɛlt͡sn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „fortwälzen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
fortwälzen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈfɔʁtˌvɛlt͡sn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fortwälzen, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. 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 fortwälzen, spelled F-O-R-T-W-Ä-L-Z-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas (unter großem Kraftaufwand) von einer Stelle, einem Ort wegrollen/wegschieben
- 2sich langsam weiterbewegen/wegbewegen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fortwälzen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Stein blockiert den Eingang, man müsste ihn fortwälzen. Vielleicht kriegt man ihn mit Hilfe von Eisenstangen fortgewälzt.
Träge wälzte sich der Strom der Besucher fort, erst dem Aussichtspunkt entgegen und dann weiter zum Ausgang.
Synonyms
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.