punktieren
[pʊŋkˈtiːʁən]
The verdict
“punktieren” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - auf eine Fläche einen oder mehrere Punkte machen/zeichnen
Corpus desk
Index DE-punktieren · punktieren · German
punktieren · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | punktieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pʊŋkˈtiːʁən] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „punktieren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
punktieren is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [pʊŋkˈtiːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for punktieren in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is punktieren, spelled P-U-N-K-T-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1auf eine Fläche einen oder mehrere Punkte machen/zeichnen
- 2eine Note mit einem Punkt versehen
- 3eine Note mit einem Punkt versehen
- 4eine Note mit einem Punkt versehen
- 5eine Note im Sinne von [2b] spielen oder singen
- 6eine Punktion durchführen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how punktieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er punktierte die graue Fläche noch zusätzlich.
„Diese vier Noten hier musst du punktieren.“
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.