perforieren
[pɛʁfoˈʁiːʁən]
The verdict
“perforieren” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas mit Löchern versehen
Corpus desk
Index DE-perforieren · perforieren · German
perforieren · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | perforieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pɛʁfoˈʁiːʁən] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „perforieren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
perforieren is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [pɛʁfoˈʁiːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "etwas mit Löchern versehen".
perforieren has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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 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 perforieren, spelled P-E-R-F-O-R-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas mit Löchern versehen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how perforieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Man kann mit einem Laser Blech an der Biegekante perforieren, um es sehr leicht zu biegen.
This word in other languages
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.