suspendieren
[zʊspɛnˈdiːʁən]
The verdict
“suspendieren” is an uncommon German word, ranked #85,909 in German word frequency and used as a verb.
- #85,909
- frequency rank, German
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - jemanden zeitweise von einer Verpflichtung oder einem Amt entbinden
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suspendieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [zʊspɛnˈdiːʁən] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #85,909 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “suspendieren” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for suspendieren is 12 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [zʊspɛnˈdiːʁən]. Corpus data places it at rank #85,909 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for suspendieren, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 suspendieren, spelled S-U-S-P-E-N-D-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1jemanden zeitweise von einer Verpflichtung oder einem Amt entbinden
- 2etwas zeitweilig aufheben
- 3feste Teilchen in einer Flüssigkeit sehr fein verteilen
- 4schwebend aufhängen (Gliedmaße)
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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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Using “suspendieren”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-U-S-P-E-N-D-I-E-R-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [zʊspɛnˈdiːʁən] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.