wippen

/[ˈvɪpn̩]/ verb

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#58,458

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

wippen is aGermanverb. It means: wiederholt hin- und herschwingen oder hoch und runter schwingen Pronounced [ˈvɪpn̩].

Key facts for wippen
PropertyValue
Headwordwippen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˈvɪpn̩]
Letters6
Frequency rank#58,458
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of wippen in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for wippen is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvɪpn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #58,458 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "wiederholt hin- und herschwingen oder hoch und runter schwingen".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for wippen 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 wippen, spelled W-I-P-P-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    wiederholt hin- und herschwingen oder hoch und runter schwingen

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #58,458 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "wippen"?
"wippen" is spelled W-I-P-P-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈvɪpn̩].
What does "wippen" mean?
As a verb, "wippen" means: wiederholt hin- und herschwingen oder hoch und runter schwingen
How do you pronounce "wippen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "wippen" is [ˈvɪpn̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "wippen" come from?
"wippen" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.