illuminieren
[ɪlumiˈniːʁən]
The verdict
“illuminieren” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - festlich beleuchten
Corpus desk
Index DE-illuminieren · illuminieren · German
illuminieren · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" 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 | illuminieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɪlumiˈniːʁən] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „illuminieren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
illuminieren is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ɪlumiˈniːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for illuminieren, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is illuminieren, spelled I-L-L-U-M-I-N-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1festlich beleuchten
- 2Handschriften ausmalen (von Künstlern des Mittelalters)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how illuminieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der ganze Saal war mit Kerzen illuminiert.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.