wetteifern
[ˈvɛtˌʔaɪ̯fɐn]
The verdict
“wetteifern” is uncommon German (frequency #62,096 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,096
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit jemandem konkurrieren und versuchen, ihn zu übertreffen
Corpus desk
Index DE-wetteifern · wetteifern · German
wetteifern · rank #62,096 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,096
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Westwood
Nearest frequency peer: Westwood (-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 „wetteifern“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- wertgeschät…
wertgeschätzt
37,908 corpus weight
- Westschweiz
Westschweiz
37,907 corpus weight
- Westwood
Westwood
37,906 corpus weight
- wetteifern
wetteifern
37,905 corpus weight
- Wichtigtuer
Wichtigtuer
37,902 corpus weight
- wickelte
wickelte
37,901 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „wetteifern“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wetteifern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈvɛtˌʔaɪ̯fɐn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,096 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „wetteifern“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
wetteifern is uncommon German at frequency #62,096 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈvɛtˌʔaɪ̯fɐn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mit jemandem konkurrieren und versuchen, ihn zu übertreffen".
wetteifern doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is wetteifern, spelled W-E-T-T-E-I-F-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1mit jemandem konkurrieren und versuchen, ihn zu übertreffen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wetteifern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die klassische Industrie wetteifert mit der modernen IT-Wirtschaft darum, wer im Geschäft mit Servicerobotern die Nase vorn hat.“
22 Pudeldamen wetteiferten um den Titel.
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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