reagieren
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,147
in German word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
reagieren is aGermanverb. It means: sich als von etwas beeinflusst erweisen; sich auf einen Anreiz hin in bestimmter Weise verhalten Pronounced [ʁeaˈɡiːʁən]. It ranks #3,147 in German word frequency. Often confused with reagiert and regieren.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reagieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʁeaˈɡiːʁən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for reagieren is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʁeaˈɡiːʁən]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,147 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for reagieren, with forms such as "eragieren", "raegieren", and "reageiren". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "reagiert", "regieren", "reagierte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 reagieren, spelled R-E-A-G-I-E-R-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sich als von etwas beeinflusst erweisen; sich auf einen Anreiz hin in bestimmter Weise verhalten
- 2eine chemische Reaktion eingehen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eragieren,raegieren,reageiren,reaggieren,reagieern,reagierenn,reagierne,reagierren,reagireen,reaigeren,regaieren,rreagieren
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for reagieren
Misspelling Variants of "reagieren"
Frequency rank: #3,147 in German
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