skalieren

[ˌskaˈliːʁən]

/[ˌskaˈliːʁən]/ verb

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The verdict

“skalieren” is uncommon German (frequency #65,688 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#65,688
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Daten und Messwerte in eine Skala einordnen

Corpus desk

Index DE-skalieren · skalieren · German

skalieren · rank #65,688 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #65,688
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH sinnvollerwei…

Nearest frequency peer: sinnvollerweise (-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 „skalieren“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „skalieren“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for skalieren
PropertyValue
Headwordskalieren
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˌskaˈliːʁən]
Letters9
Frequency rank#65,688
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „skalieren“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.skalierenfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „sinnvollerweise“ (#65,687), „Siegtor“ (#65,686), „Sonderkommission“ (#65,690). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „skalieren“ bei #65,688. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

skalieren is uncommon German at frequency #65,688 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˌskaˈliːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for skalieren, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is skalieren, spelled S-K-A-L-I-E-R-E-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Daten und Messwerte in eine Skala einordnen
  2. 2
    die Größe einer Grafik anpassen
  3. 3
    die Leistungsfähigkeit (einer Software oder Hardware) an geänderten Bedarf anpassen
  4. 4
    etwas gleichmäßig vergrößern oder verkleinern

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how skalieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Um Daten zu systematisieren und zu vergleichen, werden sie skaliert.
  2. Vektorgrafiken lassen sich verlustfrei skalieren.

This word in other languages

scale(English)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "skalieren"?
"skalieren" is spelled S-K-A-L-I-E-R-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌskaˈliːʁən].
What does "skalieren" mean?
As a verb, "skalieren" means: Daten und Messwerte in eine Skala einordnen
How do you pronounce "skalieren"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "skalieren" is [ˌskaˈliːʁən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "skalieren" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "skalieren", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Segnungen#65,677spazierte#65,699Sperrholz#65,701schwiegen#65,669

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list