spazieren

/[ʃpaˈt͡siːʁən]/ verb

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,230

in German word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

spazieren is aGermanverb. It means: gemächlich gehen zum Zwecke der Entspannung und Zerstreuung Pronounced [ʃpaˈt͡siːʁən]. It ranks #7,230 in German word frequency. Often confused with spaziert and späteren.

Key facts for spazieren
PropertyValue
Headwordspazieren
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ʃpaˈt͡siːʁən]
Letters9
Frequency rank#7,230
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of spazieren in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for spazieren is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃpaˈt͡siːʁən]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,230 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "gemächlich gehen zum Zwecke der Entspannung und Zerstreuung".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for spazieren, with forms such as "psazieren", "sapzieren", and "spaizeren". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "spaziert", "späteren", "sanieren", and more, 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 spazieren, spelled S-P-A-Z-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. 1
    gemächlich gehen zum Zwecke der Entspannung und Zerstreuung

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: psazieren,sapzieren,spaizeren,spazeiren,spazieern,spazierenn,spazierne,spazierren,spazireen,spazzieren,sppazieren,spzaieren,sspazieren

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for spazieren

Misspelling Variants of "spazieren"

psazieren9sapzieren9spaizeren9spazeiren9spazieern9spazierenn10spazierne9spazierren10
Misspelling Variants of "spazieren"

Frequency rank: #7,230 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "spazieren"?
"spazieren" is spelled S-P-A-Z-I-E-R-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ʃpaˈt͡siːʁən].
What does "spazieren" mean?
As a verb, "spazieren" means: gemächlich gehen zum Zwecke der Entspannung und Zerstreuung
What words are commonly confused with "spazieren"?
"spazieren" is commonly confused with "spaziert", "späteren", "sanieren". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "spazieren"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "spazieren" is [ʃpaˈt͡siːʁən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "spazieren" come from?
"spazieren" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.