Rührung
[ˈʁyːʁʊŋ]
The verdict
“Rührung” is uncommon German (frequency #59,131 among 2,984 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,131
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ergriffenheit; die Emotion, gerührt zu sein
Corpus desk
Index DE-ruhrung · Rührung · German
Rührung · rank #59,131 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,131
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Saarburg
Nearest frequency peer: Saarburg (+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 „Rührung“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Römerzeit
Römerzeit
40,874 corpus weight
- rückläufigen
rückläufigen
40,872 corpus weight
- Rührung
Rührung
40,870 corpus weight
- Saarburg
Saarburg
40,869 corpus weight
- sacred
sacred
40,868 corpus weight
- salzige
salzige
40,866 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Rührung“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rührung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʁyːʁʊŋ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Rührung“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Rührung is uncommon German at frequency #59,131 among 2,984 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʁyːʁʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ergriffenheit; die Emotion, gerührt zu sein".
No misspelling variants are generated for Rührung in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Rührung, spelled R-Ü-H-R-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Ergriffenheit; die Emotion, gerührt zu sein
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Rührung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Zuschauer weinten vor Rührung.
Er reagierte mit Rührung auf unseren Überraschungsbesuch. Ich meinte, einen Kloß in seinem Hals wahrzunehmen.
Synonyms
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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