rupfen
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#80,867
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
rupfen is aGermanverb. It means: einem Vogel die Federn herausziehen, meist als Vorbereitung der Zubereitung als Mahlzeit Pronounced [ˈʁʊp͡fn̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rupfen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʁʊp͡fn̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,867 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for rupfen is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʁʊp͡fn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #80,867 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.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for rupfen in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 rupfen, spelled R-U-P-F-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1einem Vogel die Federn herausziehen, meist als Vorbereitung der Zubereitung als Mahlzeit
- 2etwas (häufig mehrere kleinere Dinge gleichzeitig, wie zum Beispiel Gras oder Haare) mit der Hand abreißen
- 3jemandem das Geld aus der Tasche ziehen, ihn um Geld erleichtern
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #80,867 in German
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