privatisieren
[pʁivatiˈziːʁən]
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
- prahlt
prahlt
33,404 corpus weight
- prestigeträ…
prestigeträchtigen
33,402 corpus weight
- Priestersem…
Priesterseminar
33,400 corpus weight
- privatisier…
privatisieren
33,399 corpus weight
- programmier…
programmierten
33,397 corpus weight
- purge
purge
33,395 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „privatisieren“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | privatisieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pʁivatiˈziːʁən] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #66,602 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „privatisieren“ im Deutschen
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
- 1vorher Staatliches auf Private übertragen, etwa Staatsvermögen in Privateigentum überführen oder vormals staatliche Aufgaben in privatrechtliche Organisationsformen übertragen oder gänzlich Privatrechtssubjekten überlassen
- 2als Privatmann oder Rentner, also ohne einen Beruf auszuüben, leben (und seinen Lebensunterhalt aus Zuwendungen, dem Vermögen oder dessen Erträgen bestreiten)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how privatisieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Gemeinde plant, den Kindergarten zu privatisieren.
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.
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