umdrängen
[ʊmˈdʁɛŋən]
The verdict
“umdrängen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich mit anderen eng um jemanden oder um etwas drängen
Corpus desk
Index DE-umdrangen · umdrängen · German
umdrängen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "U" 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 | umdrängen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʊmˈdʁɛŋən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „umdrängen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
umdrängen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ʊmˈdʁɛŋən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sich mit anderen eng um jemanden oder um etwas drängen".
No generated misspelling entries exist for umdrängen in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is umdrängen, spelled U-M-D-R-Ä-N-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1sich mit anderen eng um jemanden oder um etwas drängen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how umdrängen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hunderte Männer umdrängten die Frau, die voller Panik um Hilfe schrie.
Bettlerscharen, die ihn umdrängten, ließ er nicht vertreiben, sondern versicherte ihnen, er werde sehen, was er für sie tun könne.
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.