kreuzigen
[ˈkʁɔɪ̯t͡sɪɡn̩]
The verdict
“kreuzigen” is uncommon German (frequency #91,844 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,844
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemanden zur Hinrichtung ans Kreuz schlagen
Corpus desk
Index DE-kreuzigen · kreuzigen · German
kreuzigen · rank #91,844 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,844
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kreisverbände
Nearest frequency peer: Kreisverbände (-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 „kreuzigen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- krassem
krassem
8,160 corpus weight
- Kreisverbän…
Kreisverbände
8,158 corpus weight
- kreuzigen
kreuzigen
8,157 corpus weight
- Krisenregio…
Krisenregionen
8,155 corpus weight
- kritzeln
kritzeln
8,153 corpus weight
- kränklich
kränklich
8,152 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „kreuzigen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kreuzigen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈkʁɔɪ̯t͡sɪɡn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,844 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „kreuzigen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
kreuzigen is uncommon German at frequency #91,844 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈkʁɔɪ̯t͡sɪɡn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "jemanden zur Hinrichtung ans Kreuz schlagen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for kreuzigen, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is kreuzigen, spelled K-R-E-U-Z-I-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1jemanden zur Hinrichtung ans Kreuz schlagen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kreuzigen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jesus wurde gekreuzigt.
„Pilatus sprach zu ihnen: Was soll ich dann machen mit Jesus, von dem gesagt wird, er sei der Christus? Sie sprachen alle: Lass ihn kreuzigen! Er aber sagte: Was hat er denn Böses getan? Sie schrien aber noch mehr: Lass ihn kreuzigen!“
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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