lynchen
[ˈlʏnçn̩]
The verdict
“lynchen” is uncommon German (frequency #77,032 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,032
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemanden für eine Tat, die als Unrecht angesehen wird, ohne rechtskräftiges Gerichtsurteil schwer misshandeln und/oder töten
Corpus desk
Index DE-lynchen · lynchen · German
lynchen · rank #77,032 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,032
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Luftwaffenstü…
Nearest frequency peer: Luftwaffenstützpunkt (-2 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 „lynchen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Lohnfortzah…
Lohnfortzahlung
22,974 corpus weight
- Lots
Lots
22,973 corpus weight
- ludo
ludo
22,972 corpus weight
- Luftwaffens…
Luftwaffenstützpunkt
22,971 corpus weight
- lynchen
lynchen
22,969 corpus weight
- Machtanspru…
Machtanspruch
22,964 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „lynchen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lynchen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈlʏnçn̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,032 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „lynchen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
lynchen is uncommon German at frequency #77,032 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈlʏnçn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lynchen, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 lynchen, spelled L-Y-N-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1jemanden für eine Tat, die als Unrecht angesehen wird, ohne rechtskräftiges Gerichtsurteil schwer misshandeln und/oder töten
- 2sehr mit jemandem schimpfen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lynchen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Weil sie ihn für einen Vergewaltiger hielten, lynchten die Farmer den Pfarrer.
„Den ungarischen Ministerpräsidenten wollten sie lynchen, weil er einen Bauernjungen mit seinem Auto überfahren hat.“
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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