marinieren
[maʁiˈniːʁən]
The verdict
“marinieren” is uncommon German (frequency #95,939 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,939
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fleisch oder Fisch längere Zeit in eine gewürzte Soße (Marinade) legen und durchziehen lassen
Corpus desk
Index DE-marinieren · marinieren · German
marinieren · rank #95,939 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,939
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Marineminister
Nearest frequency peer: Marineminister (-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 „marinieren“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Manhattans
Manhattans
4,066 corpus weight
- marching
marching
4,065 corpus weight
- Marineminis…
Marineminister
4,063 corpus weight
- marinieren
marinieren
4,062 corpus weight
- Marsberg
Marsberg
4,060 corpus weight
- Maschinenba…
Maschinenbauingenieur
4,058 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „marinieren“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marinieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [maʁiˈniːʁən] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #95,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „marinieren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
marinieren is uncommon German at frequency #95,939 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [maʁiˈniːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fleisch oder Fisch längere Zeit in eine gewürzte Soße (Marinade) legen und durchziehen lassen".
marinieren doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is marinieren, spelled M-A-R-I-N-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1Fleisch oder Fisch längere Zeit in eine gewürzte Soße (Marinade) legen und durchziehen lassen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how marinieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ein Rinderbraten wird häufig ein bis zwei Tage in Rotwein mariniert.
„Kurz überkocht, dazu etwas Speck und mit Kürbiskernöl mariniert, passen Linsensprossen herrlich zu Wildgeflügel wie einer gebratenen Fasanenbrust“, sagt der Vorarlberger.
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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