umrunden
[ʊmˈʁʊndn̩]
The verdict
“umrunden” is uncommon German (frequency #71,945 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,945
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in einer kreisförmigen Bewegung um etwas herum laufen / fahren / fliegen
Corpus desk
Index DE-umrunden · umrunden · German
umrunden · rank #71,945 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,945
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH Ulreich
Nearest frequency peer: Ulreich (-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 „umrunden“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- tönte
tönte
28,059 corpus weight
- Türklinke
Türklinke
28,058 corpus weight
- Ulreich
Ulreich
28,057 corpus weight
- umrunden
umrunden
28,056 corpus weight
- umrüsten
umrüsten
28,055 corpus weight
- umweltbewus…
umweltbewusst
28,054 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „umrunden“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | umrunden |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʊmˈʁʊndn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,945 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „umrunden“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
umrunden is uncommon German at frequency #71,945 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ʊmˈʁʊndn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "in einer kreisförmigen Bewegung um etwas herum laufen / fahren / fliegen".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for umrunden, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 umrunden, spelled U-M-R-U-N-D-E-N.
Definition
- 1in einer kreisförmigen Bewegung um etwas herum laufen / fahren / fliegen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how umrunden appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Erde umrundet die Sonne in 365 ¼ Tagen.
Die chinesische Sonde hat die Aufgabe, den Mars zu umrunden, während das Landegerät der Russen auf dem Mond Phobos landen soll, um dort Bodenproben zu entnehmen.
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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