rotieren
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,172
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
rotieren is aGermanverb. It means: sich um eine (gedachte) Achse bewegen Pronounced [ʁoˈtiːʁən]. Often confused with rotiert and regieren.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rotieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʁoˈtiːʁən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #37,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for rotieren is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʁoˈtiːʁən]. Corpus data places it at rank #37,172 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for rotieren, with forms such as "ortieren", "roiteren", and "roteiren". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "rotiert", "regieren", "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 rotieren, spelled R-O-T-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 um eine (gedachte) Achse bewegen
- 2hektisch sein, hektisch werden, (sich) hetzen
- 3einen Posten, eine Position tauschen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ortieren,roiteren,roteiren,rotieern,rotierenn,rotierne,rotierren,rotireen,rottieren,rrotieren,rtoieren
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rotieren
Misspelling Variants of "rotieren"
Frequency rank: #37,172 in German
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