professionalisieren
[pʁofɛsi̯onaliˈziːʁən]
The verdict
“professionalisieren” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zu einer beruflichen Tätigkeit machen
Corpus desk
Index DE-professionalisieren · professionalisieren · German
professionalisieren · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 19 letters
- VOW-9 9 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 | professionalisieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pʁofɛsi̯onaliˈziːʁən] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „professionalisieren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
professionalisieren is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [pʁofɛsi̯onaliˈziːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "zu einer beruflichen Tätigkeit machen".
No misspelling variants are generated for professionalisieren in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is professionalisieren, spelled P-R-O-F-E-S-S-I-O-N-A-L-I-S-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1zu einer beruflichen Tätigkeit machen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how professionalisieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Bei der EM 1961, als der Sport noch nicht professionalisiert war, spielte ein zehnjähriger Italiener aus Mailand mit – und gewann.“
„April 1936 wurden parallel die Schulung und Truppenbetreuung ausgebaut und professionalisiert.“
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.