zehren
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#54,258
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
zehren is aGermanverb. It means: durch verschiedene Einflüsse an Gewicht oder Volumen verlieren oder verlieren lassen Pronounced [ˈt͡seːʁən].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zehren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈt͡seːʁən] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,258 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for zehren is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡seːʁən]. Corpus data places it at rank #54,258 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for zehren 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 zehren, spelled Z-E-H-R-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1durch verschiedene Einflüsse an Gewicht oder Volumen verlieren oder verlieren lassen
- 2jemanden schwächen
- 3sich von etwas ernähren, etwas als Nahrung für den Körper oder Stärkung für die Seele nutzen
- 4essen und trinken (in Anlehnung an die Wortgeschichte ist davon auszugehen, dass zunächst nur das Zerreißen des Fleisches beim Essen erfasst war)
- 5verdauen
- 6fressen
- 7verbrauchen
- 8betteln, erpressen
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Frequency rank: #54,258 in German
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