spedieren
[ʃpeˈdiːʁən]
The verdict
“spedieren” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Güter) transportieren
Corpus desk
Index DE-spedieren · spedieren · German
spedieren · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | spedieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃpeˈdiːʁən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „spedieren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
spedieren is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ʃpeˈdiːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Güter) transportieren".
No misspelling variants are generated for spedieren in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is spedieren, spelled S-P-E-D-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1(Güter) transportieren
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how spedieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Das stimmt mit einer Beschwerde der Bregenzer Handelsleute um 1810 überein, die die schlecht koordinierten Anschlusszeiten der Feldkircher Briefpost mit den Mailänder und Schweizer Boten monierten, die die Briefe nach oder von Oberitalien spedierten.“
„Kaum vierzehn Tage, nachdem Nixl Wien verlassen, sandte er mir eine Geldsumme mit der Weisung, für Heli allerlei einzukaufen, was sie zur Reise nach Lodz und zum Aufenthalt dort benötige, sie in den Waggon zu setzen und so in die Arme ihres sehnsüchtigen Liebhabers zu spedieren.“
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.