sprießen
[ˈʃpʁiːsn̩]
The verdict
“sprießen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zu wachsen beginnen, keimen; austreiben
Corpus desk
Index DE-sprie-en · sprießen · German
sprießen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | sprießen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃpʁiːsn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „sprießen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
sprießen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈʃpʁiːsn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for sprießen in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct German form is sprießen, spelled S-P-R-I-E-S-S-E-N.
Definition
- 1zu wachsen beginnen, keimen; austreiben
- 2neu entstehen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sprießen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Überall sprießt und grünt es.
Der Bart beginnt zu sprießen.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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.