relent
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The verdict
“relent” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - weniger hart oder entschlossen gegenüber anderen sein, seine eigene Strenge mildern: nachgeben
Corpus desk
Index DE-relent · relent · German
relent · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | relent |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „relent“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
relent is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for relent, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is relent, spelled R-E-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1weniger hart oder entschlossen gegenüber anderen sein, seine eigene Strenge mildern: nachgeben
- 2weniger heftig sein, an Intensität abnehmen: nachlassen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how relent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The children didn't stop begging for ice cream and the mother finally relented.
The wind relented.
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.