zertreten
[t͡sɛɐ̯ˈtʁeːtn̩]
The verdict
“zertreten” is uncommon German (frequency #62,121 among 1,996 “Z” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,121
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit den Füßen zerdrücken, zerstören
Corpus desk
Index DE-zertreten · zertreten · German
zertreten · rank #62,121 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,121
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH zerfleischt
Nearest frequency peer: zerfleischt (-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 „zertreten“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- zeitaufwend…
zeitaufwendig
37,883 corpus weight
- Zentralrats
Zentralrats
37,882 corpus weight
- zerfleischt
zerfleischt
37,881 corpus weight
- zertreten
zertreten
37,880 corpus weight
- zertrümmern
zertrümmern
37,879 corpus weight
- zierlichen
zierlichen
37,877 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „zertreten“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zertreten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [t͡sɛɐ̯ˈtʁeːtn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „zertreten“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
zertreten is uncommon German at frequency #62,121 among 1,996 “Z” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [t͡sɛɐ̯ˈtʁeːtn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mit den Füßen zerdrücken, zerstören".
zertreten doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is zertreten, spelled Z-E-R-T-R-E-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1mit den Füßen zerdrücken, zerstören
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how zertreten appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ein wahrhaft großer Mann wird weder einen Wurm zertreten, noch vor einem Kaiser kriechen.
Im Spiel gegen Köln stürmten Vermummte den Rasen und zertraten eine Kamera im Wert von 600.000 Euro.
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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