hineilen
[ˈhɪnˌʔaɪ̯lən]
The verdict
“hineilen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zu einem bestimmten Ort laufen; sich schnell wegbewegen
Corpus desk
Index DE-hineilen · hineilen · German
hineilen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | hineilen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈhɪnˌʔaɪ̯lən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „hineilen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
hineilen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈhɪnˌʔaɪ̯lən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for hineilen in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 hineilen, spelled H-I-N-E-I-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1zu einem bestimmten Ort laufen; sich schnell wegbewegen
- 2(ohne erkennbares, festes Ziel) rasch von einer Stelle zu einer anderen laufen
- 3rasch zu Ende kommen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hineilen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Ober eilte zur Küche hin, sie hörten, wie er unterwegs die Gäste mahnt, die er vorher verlassen hatte.“
„Denn im Fall eines Feueralarms wissen die Brandretter nicht schnell genug, wo sie hineilen müssen.“
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.