investigate
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The verdict
“investigate” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (in einem Kriminalfall) ermitteln
Corpus desk
Index DE-investigate · investigate · German
investigate · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | investigate |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „investigate“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
investigate is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for investigate, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is investigate, spelled I-N-V-E-S-T-I-G-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1(in einem Kriminalfall) ermitteln
- 2etwas erforschen, erkunden, untersuchen
- 3recherchieren, nachforschen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how investigate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Then Justa's brother, Norris, who'd gone to investigate, took the law into his own fists-and landed in a Monterrey jail for punching a Mexican police captain."
Synonyms
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.