privatisieren

[pʁivatiˈziːʁən]

/[pʁivatiˈziːʁən]/ verb

The verdict

“privatisieren” is uncommon German (frequency #66,602 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#66,602
frequency rank, German
3,409
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - vorher Staatliches auf Private übertragen, etwa Staatsvermögen in Privateigentum überführen oder vormals staatliche Aufgaben in privatrechtliche Organisationsformen übertragen oder gänzlich Privatr...

Corpus desk

Index DE-privatisieren · privatisieren · German

privatisieren · rank #66,602 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #66,602
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,409
  • PHOTO-FINISH Priestersemin…

Nearest frequency peer: Priesterseminar (-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 „privatisieren“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for privatisieren
PropertyValue
Headwordprivatisieren
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[pʁivatiˈziːʁən]
Letters13
Frequency rank#66,602
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „privatisieren“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).privatisierenfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Priesterseminar“ (#66,601), „programmierten“ (#66,604), „prestigeträchtigen“ (#66,599). Unter 3,409 „P“-Lemmata liegt „privatisieren“ bei #66,602. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

privatisieren is uncommon German at frequency #66,602 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [pʁivatiˈziːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for privatisieren, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is privatisieren, spelled P-R-I-V-A-T-I-S-I-E-R-E-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    vorher Staatliches auf Private übertragen, etwa Staatsvermögen in Privateigentum überführen oder vormals staatliche Aufgaben in privatrechtliche Organisationsformen übertragen oder gänzlich Privatrechtssubjekten überlassen
  2. 2
    als Privatmann oder Rentner, also ohne einen Beruf auszuüben, leben (und seinen Lebensunterhalt aus Zuwendungen, dem Vermögen oder dessen Erträgen bestreiten)

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Die Gemeinde plant, den Kindergarten zu privatisieren.
  2. Man überlegt, den Justizvollzug zu privatisieren.

Antonyms

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); 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 "privatisieren"?
"privatisieren" is spelled P-R-I-V-A-T-I-S-I-E-R-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [pʁivatiˈziːʁən].
What does "privatisieren" mean?
As a verb, "privatisieren" means: vorher Staatliches auf Private übertragen, etwa Staatsvermögen in Privateigentum überführen oder vormals staatliche Aufgaben in privatrechtliche Organisationsformen übertragen oder gänzlich Privatr...
How do you pronounce "privatisieren"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "privatisieren" is [pʁivatiˈziːʁən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "privatisieren" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list