wiederkehren
[ˈviːdɐˌkeːʁən]
The verdict
“wiederkehren” is uncommon German (frequency #68,892 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,892
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - wieder an einen Ausgangspunkt kommen
Corpus desk
Index DE-wiederkehren · wiederkehren · German
wiederkehren · rank #68,892 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,892
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH wiedergesehen
Nearest frequency peer: wiedergesehen (-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 „wiederkehren“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- widerstrebt
widerstrebt
31,112 corpus weight
- widow
widow
31,111 corpus weight
- wiedergeseh…
wiedergesehen
31,110 corpus weight
- wiederkehren
wiederkehren
31,109 corpus weight
- wiederkehre…
wiederkehrendes
31,108 corpus weight
- Wilderei
Wilderei
31,107 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „wiederkehren“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wiederkehren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈviːdɐˌkeːʁən] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #68,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „wiederkehren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
wiederkehren is uncommon German at frequency #68,892 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈviːdɐˌkeːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for wiederkehren in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 wiederkehren, spelled W-I-E-D-E-R-K-E-H-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1wieder an einen Ausgangspunkt kommen
- 2sich wiederholen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wiederkehren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„In den frühen Morgenstunden packte er kalt entschlossen statt der Schulsachen ein paar Kleider in seinen Ranzen, dazu alles Geld, das er sich insgeheim mühsam zusammengespart hatte, und verließ sein Elternhaus, um fast drei Jahrzehnte lang nicht wiederzukehren, auch nicht zum Begräbnis seiner Mutter.“
Egal wie oft sie den Schimmel auch schon entfernt haben, er kehrt immer wieder.
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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