somnambulieren
[ˌzɔmnambuˈliːʁən]
The verdict
“somnambulieren” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aufstehen und gehen, während man schläft
Corpus desk
Index DE-somnambulieren · somnambulieren · German
somnambulieren · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | somnambulieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˌzɔmnambuˈliːʁən] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „somnambulieren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
somnambulieren is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ˌzɔmnambuˈliːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "aufstehen und gehen, während man schläft".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for somnambulieren, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 somnambulieren, spelled S-O-M-N-A-M-B-U-L-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1aufstehen und gehen, während man schläft
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how somnambulieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Diese neugierige Mrs Boggle hat also herausgefunden, dass er somnambuliert, und ihn ganz kalt für ihre unlauteren Absichten eingesetzt.“
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.