rasten zu
The verdict
“rasten zu” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: 1. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs zurasen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rasten zu |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˌʁaːstn̩ ˈt͡suː] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rasten zu” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for rasten zu is 9 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌʁaːstn̩ ˈt͡suː]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for rasten zu 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 rasten zu, spelled R-A-S-T-E-N- -Z-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 11. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs zurasen
- 21. Person Plural Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs zurasen
- 33. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs zurasen
- 43. Person Plural Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs zurasen
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Using “rasten zu”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is R-A-S-T-E-N- -Z-U — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˌʁaːstn̩ ˈt͡suː] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Nearby German words
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