patrouillieren

/[ˌpatʁʊlˈjiːʁən]/ verb

Letters

14 characters

Frequency Rank

#59,949

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

patrouillieren is aGermanverb. It means: als Posten (einer Polizei, eines Militärs, eines sonstigen Sicherheitsorgans sowie einer Bürgerwehr, Miliz oder dergleichen) in einem bestimmten Gebiet regelmäßige Erkundungs- und/oder Kontrollgäng... Pronounced [ˌpatʁʊlˈjiːʁən].

Key facts for patrouillieren
PropertyValue
Headwordpatrouillieren
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˌpatʁʊlˈjiːʁən]
Letters14
Frequency rank#59,949
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of patrouillieren in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for patrouillieren is 14 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌpatʁʊlˈjiːʁən]. Corpus data places it at rank #59,949 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 patrouillieren 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 patrouillieren, spelled P-A-T-R-O-U-I-L-L-I-E-R-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    als Posten (einer Polizei, eines Militärs, eines sonstigen Sicherheitsorgans sowie einer Bürgerwehr, Miliz oder dergleichen) in einem bestimmten Gebiet regelmäßige Erkundungs- und/oder Kontrollgänge oder -fahrten durchführen
  2. 2
    auf- und abgehen, als der Straßenprostitution nachgehende weibliche Person

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This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #59,949 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "patrouillieren"?
"patrouillieren" is spelled P-A-T-R-O-U-I-L-L-I-E-R-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌpatʁʊlˈjiːʁən].
What does "patrouillieren" mean?
As a verb, "patrouillieren" means: als Posten (einer Polizei, eines Militärs, eines sonstigen Sicherheitsorgans sowie einer Bürgerwehr, Miliz oder dergleichen) in einem bestimmten Gebiet regelmäßige Erkundungs- und/oder Kontrollgäng...
How do you pronounce "patrouillieren"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "patrouillieren" is [ˌpatʁʊlˈjiːʁən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.