infiltrieren
[ɪnfɪlˈtʁiːʁən]
The verdict
“infiltrieren” is uncommon German (frequency #73,646 among 1,488 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,646
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in etwas eindringen, jemanden durchdringen, jemanden oder etwas unterwandern
Corpus desk
Index DE-infiltrieren · infiltrieren · German
infiltrieren · rank #73,646 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,646
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH Indizierung
Nearest frequency peer: Indizierung (-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 „infiltrieren“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- include
include
26,359 corpus weight
- Indizierung
Indizierung
26,356 corpus weight
- infiltrieren
infiltrieren
26,355 corpus weight
- inkompetente
inkompetente
26,354 corpus weight
- Innenarchit…
Innenarchitekt
26,352 corpus weight
- Innenseiten
Innenseiten
26,351 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „infiltrieren“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | infiltrieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɪnfɪlˈtʁiːʁən] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #73,646 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „infiltrieren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
infiltrieren is uncommon German at frequency #73,646 among 1,488 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ɪnfɪlˈtʁiːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for infiltrieren in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is infiltrieren, spelled I-N-F-I-L-T-R-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1in etwas eindringen, jemanden durchdringen, jemanden oder etwas unterwandern
- 2jemandem etwas einflößen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how infiltrieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er infiltriert das System.
„Die Reaktion der Nordvietnamesen bestand darin, dass sie ihre Bemühungen intensivierten, das Nachbarland zu infiltrieren und die kommunistische Bewegung des Landes […] zu schulen.“
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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