Zeitform
[ˈt͡saɪ̯tˌfɔʁm]
The verdict
“Zeitform” is an uncommon German word, ranked #99,368 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #99,368
- frequency rank, German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Form des Verbs, mit der eine der Zeitstufen ausgedrückt wird
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zeitform |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡saɪ̯tˌfɔʁm] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Zeitform” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Zeitform is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡saɪ̯tˌfɔʁm]. Corpus data places it at rank #99,368 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Form des Verbs, mit der eine der Zeitstufen ausgedrückt wird".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Zeitform in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct German form is Zeitform, spelled Z-E-I-T-F-O-R-M.
Definition
- 1Form des Verbs, mit der eine der Zeitstufen ausgedrückt wird
Synonyms
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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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Using “Zeitform”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is Z-E-I-T-F-O-R-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈt͡saɪ̯tˌfɔʁm] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.