vorwarnen
[ˈfoːɐ̯ˌvaʁnən]
The verdict
“vorwarnen” is uncommon German (frequency #91,110 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,110
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (jemanden) einige Zeit im Voraus, rechtzeitig auf eine drohende Gefahr hinweisen
Corpus desk
Index DE-vorwarnen · vorwarnen · German
vorwarnen · rank #91,110 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,110
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH vorwegzunehmen
Nearest frequency peer: vorwegzunehmen (+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 „vorwarnen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- vorliegender
vorliegender
8,894 corpus weight
- vorsetzen
vorsetzen
8,893 corpus weight
- vorwarnen
vorwarnen
8,891 corpus weight
- vorwegzuneh…
vorwegzunehmen
8,890 corpus weight
- Vorzugsstim…
Vorzugsstimmen
8,889 corpus weight
- Völlerei
Völlerei
8,888 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „vorwarnen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vorwarnen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈfoːɐ̯ˌvaʁnən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „vorwarnen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
vorwarnen is uncommon German at frequency #91,110 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈfoːɐ̯ˌvaʁnən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(jemanden) einige Zeit im Voraus, rechtzeitig auf eine drohende Gefahr hinweisen".
No misspelling variants are generated for vorwarnen in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is vorwarnen, spelled V-O-R-W-A-R-N-E-N.
Definition
- 1(jemanden) einige Zeit im Voraus, rechtzeitig auf eine drohende Gefahr hinweisen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vorwarnen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Mit dem für 2017 geplanten Start des ersten MTG-Satelliten wird es erstmals zusätzlich einen Blitzdetektor geben, der vom Weltraum aus die ersten Blitze eines Gewitters erkennt und die Bewohner der betroffenen Regionen vorwarnt.“
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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