zerkleinern
[t͡sɛɐ̯ˈklaɪ̯nɐn]
The verdict
“zerkleinern” is uncommon German (frequency #58,475 among 1,996 “Z” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,475
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in weniger große (kleine(re)) Stücke zerteilen
Corpus desk
Index DE-zerkleinern · zerkleinern · German
zerkleinern · rank #58,475 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,475
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH Zangen
Nearest frequency peer: Zangen (-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 „zerkleinern“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- zackig
zackig
41,529 corpus weight
- Zangen
Zangen
41,527 corpus weight
- zerkleinern
zerkleinern
41,526 corpus weight
- zielten
zielten
41,525 corpus weight
- Zisterne
Zisterne
41,524 corpus weight
- zufügt
zufügt
41,521 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „zerkleinern“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zerkleinern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [t͡sɛɐ̯ˈklaɪ̯nɐn] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #58,475 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „zerkleinern“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
zerkleinern is uncommon German at frequency #58,475 among 1,996 “Z” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [t͡sɛɐ̯ˈklaɪ̯nɐn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "in weniger große (kleine(re)) Stücke zerteilen".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for zerkleinern, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 zerkleinern, spelled Z-E-R-K-L-E-I-N-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1in weniger große (kleine(re)) Stücke zerteilen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how zerkleinern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mühevoll versucht er, mit seinem alten Gebiss die Nahrung zu zerkleinern.
„Du zerschlägst härtere Erdstücke mit dem Spaten, dann zerkleinerst du sie vollends mit den Zähnen der Harke und ziehst die Harke so oft darauf hin und her, bis die ganze Oberfläche hübsch eben ist.“
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).