tantalize
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The verdict
“tantalize” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemanden quälen/peinigen/reizen
Corpus desk
Index DE-tantalize · tantalize · German
tantalize · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tantalize |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „tantalize“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
tantalize is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tantalize, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is tantalize, spelled T-A-N-T-A-L-I-Z-E.
Definition
- 1jemanden quälen/peinigen/reizen
- 2jemanden ein Angebot oder einen Vorschlag machen, obwohl man nicht gewillt ist, dieses umzusetzen; täuschen, hinhalten
- 3jemanden auf die Folter spannen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tantalize appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"One day, Oliver and Noah had descended into the kitchen at the usual dinner-hour, to banquet upon a small joint of mutton—a pound and a half of the worst end of the neck—when Charlotte being called out of the way, there ensued a brief interval of time, which Noah Claypole, being hungry and vicious, considered he could not possibly devote to a worthier pu…
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.