umformen
[ˈʊmˌfɔʁmən]
The verdict
“umformen” is uncommon German (frequency #81,054 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,054
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - einer Sache ein anderes dreidimensionales Aussehen geben, eine andere qualitative Form geben
Corpus desk
Index DE-umformen · umformen · German
umformen · rank #81,054 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,054
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH Ulme
Nearest frequency peer: Ulme (-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 „umformen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- törichten
törichten
18,952 corpus weight
- UCLA
UCLA
18,951 corpus weight
- Ulme
Ulme
18,948 corpus weight
- umformen
umformen
18,947 corpus weight
- umsatzstärk…
umsatzstärksten
18,945 corpus weight
- umtreibt
umtreibt
18,944 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „umformen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | umformen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʊmˌfɔʁmən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,054 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „umformen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
umformen is uncommon German at frequency #81,054 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈʊmˌfɔʁmən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "einer Sache ein anderes dreidimensionales Aussehen geben, eine andere qualitative Form geben".
umformen doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 umformen, spelled U-M-F-O-R-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1einer Sache ein anderes dreidimensionales Aussehen geben, eine andere qualitative Form geben
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how umformen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du solltest den Brotlaib noch einmal umformen, der ist viel zu flach geworden.
Wenn man die linke Seite der Gleichung umformt, bleibt der Wert erhalten.
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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