wachrütteln
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#99,309
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
wachrütteln is aGermanverb. It means: einen Schlafenden heftig hin und her bewegen und dadurch aufwecken Pronounced [ˈvaxˌʁʏtl̩n].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wachrütteln |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈvaxˌʁʏtl̩n] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #99,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for wachrütteln is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvaxˌʁʏtl̩n]. Corpus data places it at rank #99,309 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for wachrütteln in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 wachrütteln, spelled W-A-C-H-R-Ü-T-T-E-L-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1einen Schlafenden heftig hin und her bewegen und dadurch aufwecken
- 2jemanden aus einer gewissen Lethargie, Gleichgültigkeit, Starre reißen
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Frequency rank: #99,309 in German
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