telegrafieren
[teləɡʁaˈfiːʁən]
The verdict
“telegrafieren” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Nachricht telegrafisch senden, ein Telegramm senden
Corpus desk
Index DE-telegrafieren · telegrafieren · German
telegrafieren · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | telegrafieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [teləɡʁaˈfiːʁən] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „telegrafieren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
telegrafieren is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [teləɡʁaˈfiːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Nachricht telegrafisch senden, ein Telegramm senden".
telegrafieren doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is telegrafieren, spelled T-E-L-E-G-R-A-F-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1eine Nachricht telegrafisch senden, ein Telegramm senden
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how telegrafieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wir können ihm nicht schreiben, wir können nicht telegrafieren und ihn nicht anrufen - wir wissen überhaupt keine Adresse von ihm.“
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.