levitieren
[leviˈtiːʁən]
The verdict
“levitieren” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zum Schweben bringen/kommen
Corpus desk
Index DE-levitieren · levitieren · German
levitieren · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" 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 | levitieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [leviˈtiːʁən] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „levitieren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
levitieren is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [leviˈtiːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "zum Schweben bringen/kommen".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for levitieren, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 levitieren, spelled L-E-V-I-T-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1zum Schweben bringen/kommen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how levitieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Autolevitationen, bei denen sich Personen selbst zu levitieren vermögen, spielten schon in der Geschichte früher christlicher Heilige eine nicht unwesentliche Rolle.“
„Es sind deshalb eine Reihe von Verfahren entwickelt worden, um einzelne Tröpfchen zu levitieren.“
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.