ruinieren
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,706
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
ruinieren is aGermanverb. It means: (jemanden oder sich selbst) in den Ruin treiben, arm machen, (vor allem finanziell oder geschäftlich) zugrunde richten Pronounced [ʁuiˈniːʁən]. Often confused with ruiniert.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ruinieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʁuiˈniːʁən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #17,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for ruinieren is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʁuiˈniːʁən]. Corpus data places it at rank #17,706 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 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for ruinieren, with forms such as "riunieren", "rruinieren", and "ruiineren". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "ruiniert", 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 ruinieren, spelled R-U-I-N-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
- 1(jemanden oder sich selbst) in den Ruin treiben, arm machen, (vor allem finanziell oder geschäftlich) zugrunde richten
- 2(eine Sache) unbrauchbar machen, vernichten oder zerstören
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: riunieren,rruinieren,ruiineren,ruineiren,ruinieern,ruinierenn,ruinierne,ruinierren,ruinireen,ruinnieren,runiieren
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ruinieren
Misspelling Variants of "ruinieren"
Frequency rank: #17,706 in German
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