usurpieren
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10 characters
Language
German
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usurpieren is aGermanverb. It means: etwas durch Gewalt an sich reißen; widerrechtlich (und gewaltsam) Privilegien, Befugnisse oder Besitz aneignen Pronounced [uzʊʁˈpiːʁən].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | usurpieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [uzʊʁˈpiːʁən] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for usurpieren is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [uzʊʁˈpiːʁən]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "etwas durch Gewalt an sich reißen; widerrechtlich (und gewaltsam) Privilegien, Befugnisse oder Besitz aneignen".
No misspelling variants are generated for usurpieren in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is usurpieren, spelled U-S-U-R-P-I-E-R-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas durch Gewalt an sich reißen; widerrechtlich (und gewaltsam) Privilegien, Befugnisse oder Besitz aneignen
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