tadeln
[ˈtaːdl̩n]
The verdict
“tadeln” is uncommon German (frequency #83,370 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,370
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Verhalten einer Person bemängeln, kritisieren, etwas nicht gutheißen
Corpus desk
Index DE-tadeln · tadeln · German
tadeln · rank #83,370 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,370
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH tabellarisch
Nearest frequency peer: tabellarisch (-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 „tadeln“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Südkaliforn…
Südkalifornien
16,635 corpus weight
- Südwand
Südwand
16,634 corpus weight
- tabellarisch
tabellarisch
16,632 corpus weight
- tadeln
tadeln
16,631 corpus weight
- Talsperren
Talsperren
16,629 corpus weight
- Taxonomie
Taxonomie
16,628 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „tadeln“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tadeln |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈtaːdl̩n] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,370 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „tadeln“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
tadeln is uncommon German at frequency #83,370 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈtaːdl̩n]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "das Verhalten einer Person bemängeln, kritisieren, etwas nicht gutheißen".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tadeln, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is tadeln, spelled T-A-D-E-L-N.
Definition
- 1das Verhalten einer Person bemängeln, kritisieren, etwas nicht gutheißen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tadeln appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Lehrer tadelt seine Schüler, weil sie die Vokabeln nicht beherrschen.
Wieso tadelst du mich mit erhobenem Finger? Ich habe überhaupt nichts Verwerfliches getan.
Antonyms
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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