konsternieren
[kɔnstɛʁˈniːʁən]
The verdict
“konsternieren” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fassungslos machen
Corpus desk
Index DE-konsternieren · konsternieren · German
konsternieren · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "K" 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 | konsternieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kɔnstɛʁˈniːʁən] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „konsternieren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
konsternieren is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [kɔnstɛʁˈniːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "fassungslos machen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for konsternieren, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 konsternieren, spelled K-O-N-S-T-E-R-N-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1fassungslos machen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how konsternieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das rüde Benehmen meiner Nachbarn konsterniert mich.
„Der Pädagogen-Papa wusste auf die Frage sofort eine richtige Antwort, konsternierte sich aber über den Anruf des Sohnes angesichts des ‚niedrigen‘ Fragenlevels. So teilte er mit, dass der Junge adoptiert sein müsse und legte nach dem Durchgeben der korrekten Antwort (Antike) einfach auf.“
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.