holzen
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#93,070
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
holzen is aGermanverb. It means: Bäume fällen, Holz hacken oder Ähnliches; Holzschlag ausüben Pronounced [ˈhɔlt͡sn̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | holzen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈhɔlt͡sn̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,070 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for holzen is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhɔlt͡sn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #93,070 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for holzen in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 holzen, spelled H-O-L-Z-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bäume fällen, Holz hacken oder Ähnliches; Holzschlag ausüben
- 2ohne Sorgfalt arbeiten oder ohne Behutsamkeit mit etwas umgehen
- 3ein von vielen Zweikämpfen und Fouls geprägtes, unfaires und hartes Spiel bestreiten
- 4hart und unsauber, ohne jegliches Gefühl für das verwendete Musikinstrument, spielen
- 5an einer Prügelei teilnehmen, sich prügeln
- 6(auf der Flucht) auf einen Baum fliegen oder dies von Baum zu Baum tun
- 7(auf der Flucht) auf einen Baum klettern oder von Baum zu Baum springen
- 8etwas mit Holz bedecken oder beschlagen
- 9(ein Feuer) mit Brennholz versorgen
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #93,070 in German
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