quieken

/[ˈkviːkn̩]/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

quieken is aGermanverb. It means: einen hohen und schrillen Laut von sich geben (vom Ferkel, Schwein) Pronounced [ˈkviːkn̩].

Key facts for quieken
PropertyValue
Headwordquieken
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˈkviːkn̩]
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

quieken is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for quieken is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkviːkn̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "einen hohen und schrillen Laut von sich geben (vom Ferkel, Schwein)".

No misspelling variants are generated for quieken in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is quieken, spelled Q-U-I-E-K-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    einen hohen und schrillen Laut von sich geben (vom Ferkel, Schwein)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quieken"?
"quieken" is spelled Q-U-I-E-K-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈkviːkn̩].
What does "quieken" mean?
As a verb, "quieken" means: einen hohen und schrillen Laut von sich geben (vom Ferkel, Schwein)
How do you pronounce "quieken"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quieken" is [ˈkviːkn̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quieken" come from?
"quieken" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby German words

Other entries that begin with the letter Q in our German index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.