überstürzen
[yːbɐˈʃtʏʁt͡sn̩]
The verdict
“überstürzen” is uncommon German (frequency #68,941 among 443 “Ü” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,941
- frequency rank, German
- 443
- “Ü” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas unvorbereitet in Angriff nehmen; übereilt handeln
Corpus desk
Index DE-ubersturzen · überstürzen · German
überstürzen · rank #68,941 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,941
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 443
- PHOTO-FINISH übersenden
Nearest frequency peer: übersenden (-1 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „überstürzen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Ölwechsel
Ölwechsel
31,064 corpus weight
- überdreht
überdreht
31,063 corpus weight
- Überholmanö…
Überholmanöver
31,062 corpus weight
- übersenden
übersenden
31,061 corpus weight
- überstürzen
überstürzen
31,060 corpus weight
- überwies
überwies
31,059 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „überstürzen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | überstürzen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [yːbɐˈʃtʏʁt͡sn̩] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #68,941 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „überstürzen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
überstürzen is uncommon German at frequency #68,941 among 443 “Ü” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [yːbɐˈʃtʏʁt͡sn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "etwas unvorbereitet in Angriff nehmen; übereilt handeln".
überstürzen doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 überstürzen, spelled Ü-B-E-R-S-T-Ü-R-Z-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas unvorbereitet in Angriff nehmen; übereilt handeln
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how überstürzen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Lasst uns nichts überstürzen!“
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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