paraphrasieren
[paʁafʁaˈziːʁən]
The verdict
“paraphrasieren” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas in eigenen Worten wiedergeben oder erklären
Corpus desk
Index DE-paraphrasieren · paraphrasieren · German
paraphrasieren · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | paraphrasieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [paʁafʁaˈziːʁən] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „paraphrasieren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
paraphrasieren is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [paʁafʁaˈziːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "etwas in eigenen Worten wiedergeben oder erklären".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for paraphrasieren, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is paraphrasieren, spelled P-A-R-A-P-H-R-A-S-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas in eigenen Worten wiedergeben oder erklären
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how paraphrasieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Zunächst sollten Sie den vorliegenden Text paraphrasieren.
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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.