herumgehen
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#97,141
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
herumgehen is aGermanverb. It means: sich zu Fuß ziellos oder ohne genaue Richtung an einem Ort bewegen Pronounced [hɛˈʁʊmˌɡeːən].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | herumgehen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [hɛˈʁʊmˌɡeːən] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,141 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for herumgehen is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [hɛˈʁʊmˌɡeːən]. Corpus data places it at rank #97,141 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for herumgehen in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.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.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is herumgehen, spelled H-E-R-U-M-G-E-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sich zu Fuß ziellos oder ohne genaue Richtung an einem Ort bewegen
- 2in einem Kreis/Bogen um etwas laufen/wandern
- 3etwas von einer Person zur nächsten reichen
- 4eine Neuigkeit/Geschichte weitererzählen
- 5vergehen, verstreichen
- 6sich fortwährend mit einem Gedanken beschäftigen
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Frequency rank: #97,141 in German
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