obliegen
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#78,359
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
obliegen is aGermanverb. It means: jemandem eine Aufgabe sein, von jemandem bewältigt werden müssen Pronounced [ɔpˈliːɡn̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obliegen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɔpˈliːɡn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,359 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for obliegen is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɔpˈliːɡn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #78,359 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for obliegen in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is obliegen, spelled O-B-L-I-E-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jemandem eine Aufgabe sein, von jemandem bewältigt werden müssen
- 2sich anhaltend mit etwas beschäftigen, sich einer Sache widmen
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #78,359 in German
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