hinfallen
[ˈhɪnˌfalən]
The verdict
“hinfallen” is uncommon German (frequency #69,359 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,359
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (mit Wucht) zu Boden, auf die Erde fallen
Corpus desk
Index DE-hinfallen · hinfallen · German
hinfallen · rank #69,359 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,359
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH himmlisches
Nearest frequency peer: himmlisches (-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 „hinfallen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Hilfsliefer…
Hilfslieferungen
30,645 corpus weight
- himmlisches
himmlisches
30,643 corpus weight
- hinfallen
hinfallen
30,642 corpus weight
- hingeschickt
hingeschickt
30,641 corpus weight
- hinterlegten
hinterlegten
30,640 corpus weight
- hinwegsetzen
hinwegsetzen
30,639 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „hinfallen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hinfallen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈhɪnˌfalən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,359 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „hinfallen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
hinfallen is uncommon German at frequency #69,359 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈhɪnˌfalən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for hinfallen in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 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 hinfallen, spelled H-I-N-F-A-L-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1(mit Wucht) zu Boden, auf die Erde fallen
- 2sich vor jemandem auf die Knie werfen
- 3auf den Boden, die Erde fallen; nach unten fallen
- 4hinfällig werden; nicht mehr in Betracht kommen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hinfallen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Beim Eintritt wäre er fast hingefallen, denn hinter der Tür war noch eine Stufe.“
„Trotzdem weiß Malina es, und ich bitte ihn, während ich, an ihn gekrampft, auf und ab renne in der Wohnung, mich niederfallen lasse, wieder aufstehe, mir das Hemd aufmache, mich wieder hinfallen lasse, denn ich verliere den Verstand, es kommt über mich, ich verliere den Verstand, ich bin ohne Trost, ich werde wahnsinnig, aber Malina sagt noch einmal: […]“
Synonyms
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); 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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