rationieren
[ʁat͡si̯oˈniːʁən]
The verdict
“rationieren” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Verbrauchsgüter in Krisenzeiten oder Notsituationen nur in kleinen, festgelegten Mengen freigeben oder zuteilen
Corpus desk
Index DE-rationieren · rationieren · German
rationieren · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" 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 | rationieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʁat͡si̯oˈniːʁən] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „rationieren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
rationieren is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ʁat͡si̯oˈniːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Verbrauchsgüter in Krisenzeiten oder Notsituationen nur in kleinen, festgelegten Mengen freigeben oder zuteilen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rationieren, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is rationieren, spelled R-A-T-I-O-N-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1Verbrauchsgüter in Krisenzeiten oder Notsituationen nur in kleinen, festgelegten Mengen freigeben oder zuteilen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rationieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nach Zucker-Hamsterkäufen im deutsch-polnischen Grenzgebiet haben mehrere Lebensmittelhändler dort den Verkauf rationiert.
„Bei akutem Wassermangel hilft oft nur, Trinkwasser zu rationieren.“
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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.