purgieren
[pʊʁˈɡiːʁən]
The verdict
“purgieren” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - säubern, reinigen, läutern
Corpus desk
Index DE-purgieren · purgieren · German
purgieren · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 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 | purgieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pʊʁˈɡiːʁən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “purgieren” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
purgieren is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [pʊʁˈɡiːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for purgieren, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 purgieren, spelled P-U-R-G-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1säubern, reinigen, läutern
- 2durch einen Eid eine Behauptung entkräften
- 3abführen, ein Abführmittel anwenden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how purgieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Da er keine andere Behandlungsmethode kannte, fuhr er mit dem Aderlass fort und verabreichte Einläufe, die den Körper purgieren sollten.“
Magen und Verdauungstrakt hingegen wurden purgiert. Durch die Verabreichung von Brechmitteln oder die Anwendung von Klistieren sollte eine Reinigung des Körpers geschehen und so das Wohlbefinden wiederhergestellt werden.
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