tanz herum
The verdict
“tanz herum” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs herumtanzen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tanz herum |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˌtant͡s hɛˈʁʊm] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tanz herum” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for tanz herum is 10 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌtant͡s hɛˈʁʊm]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs herumtanzen".
No misspelling variants are generated for tanz herum in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is tanz herum, spelled T-A-N-Z- -H-E-R-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs herumtanzen
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Using “tanz herum”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is T-A-N-Z- -H-E-R-U-M — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˌtant͡s hɛˈʁʊm] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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