purzeln
[ˈpʊʁt͡sl̩n]
The verdict
“purzeln” is uncommon German (frequency #69,607 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,607
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit dem Kopf voraus hinfallen
Corpus desk
Index DE-purzeln · purzeln · German
purzeln · rank #69,607 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,607
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH pullman
Nearest frequency peer: pullman (-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 „purzeln“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Prüfling
Prüfling
30,398 corpus weight
- psychisches
psychisches
30,396 corpus weight
- pullman
pullman
30,395 corpus weight
- purzeln
purzeln
30,394 corpus weight
- Quast
Quast
30,392 corpus weight
- queere
queere
30,391 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „purzeln“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | purzeln |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈpʊʁt͡sl̩n] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,607 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „purzeln“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
purzeln is uncommon German at frequency #69,607 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈpʊʁt͡sl̩n]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
purzeln has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 purzeln, spelled P-U-R-Z-E-L-N.
Definition
- 1mit dem Kopf voraus hinfallen
- 2schnell und kräftig fallen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how purzeln appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Meine Kellertreppe war gefroren, ich wäre fast gegen die Tür gepurzelt.
Dieses Instrument äußerte anfangs einen äußerst heftigen Rückschlag, und man mußte sich gewaltig zusammennehmen, um nicht beim Abfeuern glatt hintenüber zu purzeln.
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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