matern
[ˈmaːtɐn]
The verdict
“matern” is uncommon German (frequency #93,269 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,269
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in eine Mater (Form zur Herstellung von Druckplatten) bringen
Corpus desk
Index DE-matern · matern · German
matern · rank #93,269 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,269
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Marschrichtung
Nearest frequency peer: Marschrichtung (-3 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 „matern“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- marginalen
marginalen
6,738 corpus weight
- Markneukirc…
Markneukirchen
6,737 corpus weight
- Marschricht…
Marschrichtung
6,735 corpus weight
- matern
matern
6,732 corpus weight
- MCU
MCU
6,727 corpus weight
- meditiert
meditiert
6,725 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „matern“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | matern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈmaːtɐn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,269 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „matern“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
matern is uncommon German at frequency #93,269 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈmaːtɐn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "in eine Mater (Form zur Herstellung von Druckplatten) bringen".
No misspelling variants are generated for matern in our 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.
No borrowing history is documented 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 matern, spelled M-A-T-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1in eine Mater (Form zur Herstellung von Druckplatten) bringen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how matern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der junge Grundeis hätte schon um fünf Uhr nach Haus gehen können, sein Artikel war längst abgesetzt und gematert.“
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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