stillhalten
[ˈʃtɪlˌhaltn̩]
The verdict
“stillhalten” is uncommon German (frequency #59,217 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,217
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - keine Gegenmaßnahmen ergreifen
Corpus desk
Index DE-stillhalten · stillhalten · German
stillhalten · rank #59,217 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,217
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH StG
Nearest frequency peer: StG (-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 „stillhalten“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Stellvertre…
Stellvertreters
40,788 corpus weight
- Steuerbetrug
Steuerbetrug
40,786 corpus weight
- StG
StG
40,785 corpus weight
- stillhalten
stillhalten
40,784 corpus weight
- Strafantrag
Strafantrag
40,783 corpus weight
- strap
strap
40,782 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „stillhalten“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stillhalten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃtɪlˌhaltn̩] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #59,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „stillhalten“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
stillhalten is uncommon German at frequency #59,217 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈʃtɪlˌhaltn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
stillhalten has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 stillhalten, spelled S-T-I-L-L-H-A-L-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1keine Gegenmaßnahmen ergreifen
- 2keine Bewegungen machen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stillhalten appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wenn das Parlament jetzt stillhalten würde, wäre diese Argumentation ad absurdum geführt.“
„Zudem konnten sie dabei auch nicht stillhalten, sie kippelten mit dem Stuhl hin und her, redeten mit sich, summten, sangen, liefen herum oder verließen den Raum.“
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).