herauswerfen
[hɛˈʁaʊ̯sˌvɛʁfn̩]
The verdict
“herauswerfen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas von drinnen hierher nach draußen werfen
Corpus desk
Index DE-herauswerfen · herauswerfen · German
herauswerfen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" 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 | herauswerfen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [hɛˈʁaʊ̯sˌvɛʁfn̩] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “herauswerfen” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
herauswerfen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [hɛˈʁaʊ̯sˌvɛʁfn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for herauswerfen, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. 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 explicit etymology string is stored 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 herauswerfen, spelled H-E-R-A-U-S-W-E-R-F-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas von drinnen hierher nach draußen werfen
- 2jemanden oder etwas hinauswerfen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how herauswerfen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Einige arbeiteten im Innern der Löcher und kamen nur von Zeit zu Zeit mit ihren Köpfen in die Höhe, wenn sie eine Schaufel Erde aus der tiefen Grube herauswarfen.
„Ein theures Bild? Werft es heraus, tretet es mit Füßen, zerknittert es mit Eurer Hand; es gehört nicht mehr Euch, ein Anderer, Besserer, ein Heiliger des Herrn hat es in Besitz genommen.“
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