stählen
[ˈʃtɛːlən]
The verdict
“stählen” is uncommon German (frequency #88,354 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,354
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - abhärten, kräftigen, widerstandsfähig machen
Corpus desk
Index DE-stahlen · stählen · German
stählen · rank #88,354 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,354
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH stärkstes
Nearest frequency peer: stärkstes (+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 „stählen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Strolche
Strolche
11,652 corpus weight
- Strukturref…
Strukturreform
11,651 corpus weight
- Studentenze…
Studentenzeit
11,650 corpus weight
- stundenlang…
stundenlanges
11,649 corpus weight
- stählen
stählen
11,647 corpus weight
- stärkstes
stärkstes
11,646 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „stählen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stählen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃtɛːlən] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „stählen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
stählen is uncommon German at frequency #88,354 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈʃtɛːlən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "abhärten, kräftigen, widerstandsfähig machen".
stählen has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 stählen, spelled S-T-Ä-H-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1abhärten, kräftigen, widerstandsfähig machen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stählen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mit Sport kann man Körper und Geist stählen.
Er geht gestählt aus der Krise hervor.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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