remove
[ɹɪˈmuːv]
The verdict
“remove” is uncommon German (frequency #88,201 among 2,984 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,201
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - entfernen
Corpus desk
Index DE-remove · remove · German
remove · rank #88,201 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,201
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH reizender
Nearest frequency peer: reizender (-1 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „remove“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Reichsfürst…
Reichsfürsten
11,804 corpus weight
- reizender
reizender
11,801 corpus weight
- remove
remove
11,800 corpus weight
- Rennleitung
Rennleitung
11,799 corpus weight
- repräsentie…
repräsentiere
11,798 corpus weight
- requisite
requisite
11,797 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „remove“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | remove |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɹɪˈmuːv] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „remove“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
remove is uncommon German at frequency #88,201 among 2,984 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ɹɪˈmuːv]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "entfernen".
No misspelling variants are generated for remove in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is remove, spelled R-E-M-O-V-E.
Definition
- 1entfernen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how remove appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The old paint was removed.
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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