rationieren
[ʁat͡si̯oˈniːʁən]
The verdict
“rationieren” 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
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Verbrauchsgüter in Krisenzeiten oder Notsituationen nur in kleinen, festgelegten Mengen freigeben oder zuteilen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rationieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʁat͡si̯oˈniːʁən] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rationieren” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for rationieren is 11 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʁat͡si̯oˈniːʁən]. 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: "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
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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.
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Using “rationieren”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is R-A-T-I-O-N-I-E-R-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ʁat͡si̯oˈniːʁən] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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.