riskieren
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,352
in German word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
riskieren is aGermanverb. It means: etwas wagen, sich etwas trauen Pronounced [ʁɪsˈkiːʁən]. Often confused with riskiert and rasieren.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | riskieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʁɪsˈkiːʁən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for riskieren is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʁɪsˈkiːʁən]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,352 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for riskieren, with forms such as "irskieren", "riksieren", and "risikeren". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "riskiert", "rasieren", 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 riskieren, spelled R-I-S-K-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
- 1etwas wagen, sich etwas trauen
- 2etwas durch sein Benehmen oder Handeln Nachteilen oder einer Gefahr des Verlustes aussetzen; aufs Spiel setzen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: irskieren,riksieren,risikeren,riskeiren,riskieern,riskierenn,riskierne,riskierren,riskireen,riskkieren,risskieren,rriskieren,rsikieren
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for riskieren
Misspelling Variants of "riskieren"
Frequency rank: #10,352 in German
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