marginalisieren
[maʁɡinaliˈziːʁən]
The verdict
“marginalisieren” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas Wichtiges zur Täuschung anderer in den Hintergrund rücken; etwas als Nebensächlichkeit darstellen
Corpus desk
Index DE-marginalisieren · marginalisieren · German
marginalisieren · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" 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 | marginalisieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [maʁɡinaliˈziːʁən] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „marginalisieren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
marginalisieren is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [maʁɡinaliˈziːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for marginalisieren, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is marginalisieren, spelled M-A-R-G-I-N-A-L-I-S-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas Wichtiges zur Täuschung anderer in den Hintergrund rücken; etwas als Nebensächlichkeit darstellen
- 2an den Rand der Gesellschaft drängen
- 3einen Text mit Randbemerkungen (Marginalien) versehen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how marginalisieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Verlierer waren die zuvor äußerst einflussreichen Gewerkschaften, die unter Thatchers Regentschaft marginalisiert wurden.
die Finanzierung des Vorhabens wird marginalisiert.
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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.