triggern
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,250
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
triggern is aGermanverb. It means: bei Gewehr oder Pistole mit dem Finger am Abzug einen Schuss auslösen Pronounced [ˈtʁɪɡɐn]. Often confused with triggert and Trägern.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | triggern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈtʁɪɡɐn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #37,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for triggern is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈtʁɪɡɐn]. Corpus data places it at rank #37,250 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for triggern, with forms such as "rtiggern", "tirggern", and "trgigern". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "triggert", "Trägern", "Trigger", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 triggern, spelled T-R-I-G-G-E-R-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1bei Gewehr oder Pistole mit dem Finger am Abzug einen Schuss auslösen
- 2einen Schaltvorgang durch Betätigung eines Triggers/Schalters auslösen
- 3einen Prozess anstoßen
- 4einen Prozess im psychischen oder psychosozialen Bereich auslösen oder anstoßen, insbesondere das Wiedererinnern und Wiedererleben von psychotraumatischen Ereignissen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtiggern,tirggern,trgigern,trigegrn,trigern,triggenr,triggernn,triggerrn,triggren,trriggern,ttriggern
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for triggern
Misspelling Variants of "triggern"
Frequency rank: #37,250 in German
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