freilegen
[ˈfʁaɪ̯ˌleːɡn̩]
The verdict
“freilegen” is uncommon German (frequency #70,275 among 3,474 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,275
- frequency rank, German
- 3,474
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas (von einer bedeckenden Schicht) befreien; Material entfernen, das auf etwas liegt, zum Beispiel Erde oder eine Deckschicht
Corpus desk
Index DE-freilegen · freilegen · German
freilegen · rank #70,275 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,275
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,474
- PHOTO-FINISH Franka
Nearest frequency peer: Franka (-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 „freilegen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- forstlichen
forstlichen
29,730 corpus weight
- fragenden
fragenden
29,728 corpus weight
- Franka
Franka
29,727 corpus weight
- freilegen
freilegen
29,726 corpus weight
- Freyburg
Freyburg
29,724 corpus weight
- Friesischen
Friesischen
29,723 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „freilegen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | freilegen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈfʁaɪ̯ˌleːɡn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,275 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „freilegen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
freilegen is uncommon German at frequency #70,275 among 3,474 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈfʁaɪ̯ˌleːɡn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "etwas (von einer bedeckenden Schicht) befreien; Material entfernen, das auf etwas liegt, zum Beispiel Erde oder eine Deckschicht".
freilegen has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is freilegen, spelled F-R-E-I-L-E-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas (von einer bedeckenden Schicht) befreien; Material entfernen, das auf etwas liegt, zum Beispiel Erde oder eine Deckschicht
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how freilegen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Archäologen legen bei ihrer Ausgrabung zuerst die westliche Mauer der Kirche frei.
Der Chirurg will den Bruch zunächst freilegen.
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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