vorstehen
[ˈfoːɐ̯ˌʃteːən]
The verdict
“vorstehen” is uncommon German (frequency #89,782 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,782
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - weiter (als etwas anderes) herausragen
Corpus desk
Index DE-vorstehen · vorstehen · German
vorstehen · rank #89,782 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,782
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH Vorbereitungs…
Nearest frequency peer: Vorbereitungsdienst (-2 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 „vorstehen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Volksfesten
Volksfesten
10,224 corpus weight
- vollbrachte
vollbrachte
10,223 corpus weight
- Vorbereitun…
Vorbereitungsdienst
10,221 corpus weight
- vorstehen
vorstehen
10,219 corpus weight
- VPs
VPs
10,217 corpus weight
- Vulgata
Vulgata
10,216 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „vorstehen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vorstehen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈfoːɐ̯ˌʃteːən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „vorstehen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
vorstehen is uncommon German at frequency #89,782 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈfoːɐ̯ˌʃteːən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for vorstehen in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is vorstehen, spelled V-O-R-S-T-E-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1weiter (als etwas anderes) herausragen
- 2in leitender Position sein
- 3Wild durch lautloses Verharren anzeigen
- 4sich zeitlich in nächster Zeit ereignen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vorstehen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Das Krenz oder die Kruppe soll breit, rund und lang, die Hüften sollen abgerundet sein und nicht zu weit vorstehen.“
„1364 schloss er mit seinen Brüdern Albrecht III. und Leopold III. eine ‚Hausordnung‘, derzufolge jeweils der älteste der Familie dieser vorstehen und die Regierung aller Länder leiten sollte.“
Synonyms
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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