reizen
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,674
in German word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
reizen is aGermanverb. It means: jemandes Interesse wecken Pronounced [ˈʁaɪ̯t͡sn̩]. Often confused with reizt and Riten.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reizen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʁaɪ̯t͡sn̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,674 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for reizen is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʁaɪ̯t͡sn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #18,674 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for reizen, with forms such as "erizen", "reiezn", and "reizenn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "reizt", "Riten", "rennen", 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 reizen, spelled R-E-I-Z-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jemandes Interesse wecken
- 2provozieren, ärgern
- 3(sexuell) anregen, erregen
- 4den Gegner zu einem höherwertigen Spiel herausfordern
- 5einen Nervenimpuls auslösen
- 6eine entzündungsähnliche Reaktion herbeiführen
- 7Tiere durch Nachahmung charakteristischer Laute anlocken
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erizen,reiezn,reizenn,reizne,reizzen,rezien,riezen,rreizen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for reizen
Misspelling Variants of "reizen"
Frequency rank: #18,674 in German
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