umzulegen
[ˈʊmt͡suˌleːɡn̩]
The verdict
“umzulegen” is uncommon German (frequency #70,912 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,912
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - erweiterter Infinitiv Aktiv des Verbs umlegen
Corpus desk
Index DE-umzulegen · umzulegen · German
umzulegen · rank #70,912 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,912
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH umschlungen
Nearest frequency peer: umschlungen (-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 „umzulegen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Umkleiden
Umkleiden
29,092 corpus weight
- umschlungen
umschlungen
29,090 corpus weight
- umzulegen
umzulegen
29,089 corpus weight
- unausstehli…
unausstehlich
29,088 corpus weight
- unberechenb…
unberechenbaren
29,087 corpus weight
- unbeschreib…
unbeschreibliche
29,086 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „umzulegen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | umzulegen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʊmt͡suˌleːɡn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „umzulegen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
umzulegen is uncommon German at frequency #70,912 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈʊmt͡suˌleːɡn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "erweiterter Infinitiv Aktiv des Verbs umlegen".
No generated misspelling entries exist for umzulegen in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 umzulegen, spelled U-M-Z-U-L-E-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1erweiterter Infinitiv Aktiv des Verbs umlegen
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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