wegschleppen
[ˈvɛkˌʃlɛpn̩]
The verdict
“wegschleppen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit körperlicher Kraft (schwere) Last vom Ort wegbringen
Corpus desk
Index DE-wegschleppen · wegschleppen · German
wegschleppen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wegschleppen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈvɛkˌʃlɛpn̩] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „wegschleppen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
wegschleppen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈvɛkˌʃlɛpn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for wegschleppen 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, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 wegschleppen, spelled W-E-G-S-C-H-L-E-P-P-E-N.
Definition
- 1mit körperlicher Kraft (schwere) Last vom Ort wegbringen
- 2unerlaubt von einem Ort entfernen
- 3sich (mit letzter Kraft) vom Ort entfernen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wegschleppen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Und wer soll jetzt die ganzen Säcke mit dem Bauschutt wegschleppen?
Wer hat hier schon wieder die Kamera weggeschleppt?
Antonyms
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.