surround
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The verdict
“surround” is uncommon German (frequency #63,819 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,819
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas umgeben, umzingeln
Corpus desk
Index DE-surround · surround · German
surround · rank #63,819 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,819
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH stundenweise
Nearest frequency peer: stundenweise (-2 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 „surround“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Studentenbe…
Studentenbewegung
36,186 corpus weight
- studierter
studierter
36,185 corpus weight
- stundenweise
stundenweise
36,184 corpus weight
- surround
surround
36,182 corpus weight
- Svizzera
Svizzera
36,180 corpus weight
- SWAT
SWAT
36,179 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „surround“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surround |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „surround“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
surround is uncommon German at frequency #63,819 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "etwas umgeben, umzingeln".
No misspelling variants are generated for surround in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is surround, spelled S-U-R-R-O-U-N-D.
Definition
- 1etwas umgeben, umzingeln
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how surround appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I knew it, I'm surrounded by assholes.
"The jaguar is very like the leopard, but is considerably larger, and may be easily distinguished from that animal by the appearance of the spots, which are larger than those of the leopard, and are composed of a black spot surrounded by several others. There is also a black streak across the chest."
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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