umschwärmen
[ʊmˈʃvɛʁmən]
The verdict
“umschwärmen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - um etwas herumfliegen, es zusammen mit anderen (als Schwarm) umkreisen
Corpus desk
Index DE-umschwarmen · umschwärmen · German
umschwärmen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 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 | umschwärmen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʊmˈʃvɛʁmən] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „umschwärmen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
umschwärmen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ʊmˈʃvɛʁmən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for umschwärmen, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is umschwärmen, spelled U-M-S-C-H-W-Ä-R-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1um etwas herumfliegen, es zusammen mit anderen (als Schwarm) umkreisen
- 2eine Person (gleichzeitig mit vielen anderen) anhimmeln, ihr nahe sein wollen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how umschwärmen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jede Menge Fliegen umschwärmten die grasenden Pferde.
„Ich rede davon, dich zu einer Opernsängerin ausbilden zu lassen! So eine Sängerin singt vor dem König oder dem Kurfürsten, und ich versichere dir, die edelsten Männer werden dich umschwärmen.“
Antonyms
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.