hernehmen
[ˈheːɐ̯ˌneːmən]
The verdict
“hernehmen” is uncommon German (frequency #56,212 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,212
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas irgendwie beschaffen, etwas von irgendwoher holen
Corpus desk
Index DE-hernehmen · hernehmen · German
hernehmen · rank #56,212 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,212
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH hellblauen
Nearest frequency peer: hellblauen (-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 „hernehmen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Heimathafen
Heimathafen
43,792 corpus weight
- Helferin
Helferin
43,791 corpus weight
- hellblauen
hellblauen
43,790 corpus weight
- hernehmen
hernehmen
43,789 corpus weight
- Hiddensee
Hiddensee
43,788 corpus weight
- Highlands
Highlands
43,787 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „hernehmen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hernehmen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈheːɐ̯ˌneːmən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,212 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „hernehmen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
hernehmen is uncommon German at frequency #56,212 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈheːɐ̯ˌneːmən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hernehmen, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is hernehmen, spelled H-E-R-N-E-H-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas irgendwie beschaffen, etwas von irgendwoher holen
- 2mitnehmen, beanspruchen: psychisch oder physisch stark belasten
- 3benutzen, verwenden
- 4(österreichisch) siehe Duden online „hernehmen“
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hernehmen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Da sagten die Jünger zu ihm: Wo sollen wir in dieser Wüste so viel Brot hernehmen, um so viele Menschen satt zu machen?“
[Südafrika:] „Ramaphosa muss mit diesen Positionen 2019 in den Wahlkampf gehen, ohne zu wissen, wo er aus dem geplünderten und hochverschuldeten Haushalt das Geld dafür hernehmen soll.“
Synonyms
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).