parodieren

[paʁoˈdiːʁən]

/[paʁoˈdiːʁən]/ verb

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The verdict

“parodieren” is uncommon German (frequency #89,396 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#89,396
frequency rank, German
3,409
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich über jemanden oder etwas mittels einer Parodie lustig machen

Corpus desk

Index DE-parodieren · parodieren · German

parodieren · rank #89,396 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #89,396
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,409
  • PHOTO-FINISH parasitäre

Nearest frequency peer: parasitäre (-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 „parodieren“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „parodieren“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for parodieren
PropertyValue
Headwordparodieren
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[paʁoˈdiːʁən]
Letters10
Frequency rank#89,396
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „parodieren“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.parodierenfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „parasitäre“ (#89,395), „Paraffin“ (#89,394), „passer“ (#89,398). Unter 3,409 „P“-Lemmata liegt „parodieren“ bei #89,396. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

parodieren is uncommon German at frequency #89,396 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [paʁoˈdiːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sich über jemanden oder etwas mittels einer Parodie lustig machen".

parodieren has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 parodieren, spelled P-A-R-O-D-I-E-R-E-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    sich über jemanden oder etwas mittels einer Parodie lustig machen

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how parodieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Viele Politiker werden öfters im Fernsehen parodiert.

This word in other languages

parody(English)parodiar(Español)parodier(Français)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "parodieren"?
"parodieren" is spelled P-A-R-O-D-I-E-R-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [paʁoˈdiːʁən].
What does "parodieren" mean?
As a verb, "parodieren" means: sich über jemanden oder etwas mittels einer Parodie lustig machen
How do you pronounce "parodieren"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "parodieren" is [paʁoˈdiːʁən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "parodieren" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "parodieren", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

parasitäre#89,395Panoptikum#89,392pazifische#89,406originären#89,384

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list