titulieren
[tituˈliːʁən]
The verdict
“titulieren” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas, insbesondere einem Kunstwerk, Buch oder Aufsatz einen Titel geben, mit einer Überschrift versehen
Corpus desk
Index DE-titulieren · titulieren · German
titulieren · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | titulieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [tituˈliːʁən] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „titulieren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
titulieren is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [tituˈliːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for titulieren in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 titulieren, spelled T-I-T-U-L-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas, insbesondere einem Kunstwerk, Buch oder Aufsatz einen Titel geben, mit einer Überschrift versehen
- 2jemanden mit seinem Titel anreden
- 3jemanden mit einem negativen Begriff bezeichnen
- 4einen (Zahlungs-)Anspruch gerichtlich oder notariell und rechtsverbindlich feststellen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how titulieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„‚Überleg Dir doch das Glaubensbekenntnis etwas‘, hatte Engels schon am 24. November 1847 aus Paris geschrieben, ‚ich glaube, wir tun am besten, wir lassen die Katechismusform weg und titulieren das Ding: Kommunistisches Manifest. […]‘“
„Denn Hieronymus tituliert das Buch mit den Worten ‚threni idest lamentationes ieremiae prophetae‘.“
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.