frottieren
[fʁɔˈtiːʁən]
The verdict
“frottieren” 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) - kräftig abreiben, abrubbeln
Corpus desk
Index DE-frottieren · frottieren · German
frottieren · 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 | frottieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fʁɔˈtiːʁən] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „frottieren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
frottieren is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [fʁɔˈtiːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "kräftig abreiben, abrubbeln".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for frottieren, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is frottieren, spelled F-R-O-T-T-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1kräftig abreiben, abrubbeln
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how frottieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Sie kletterten aus der Wanne und frottierten einander, bis die Haut brannte.“
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.