zufriedenstellen

/[t͡suˈfʁiːdn̩ˌʃtɛlən]/ verb

Letters

16 characters

Frequency Rank

#66,909

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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zufriedenstellen is aGermanverb. It means: die Erwartungen von jemandem erfüllen und ihn damit in einen Zustand der Zufriedenheit versetzen Pronounced [t͡suˈfʁiːdn̩ˌʃtɛlən].

Key facts for zufriedenstellen
PropertyValue
Headwordzufriedenstellen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[t͡suˈfʁiːdn̩ˌʃtɛlən]
Letters16
Frequency rank#66,909
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for zufriedenstellen is 16 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t͡suˈfʁiːdn̩ˌʃtɛlən]. Corpus data places it at rank #66,909 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "die Erwartungen von jemandem erfüllen und ihn damit in einen Zustand der Zufriedenheit versetzen".

No misspelling variants are generated for zufriedenstellen in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.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 zufriedenstellen, spelled Z-U-F-R-I-E-D-E-N-S-T-E-L-L-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    die Erwartungen von jemandem erfüllen und ihn damit in einen Zustand der Zufriedenheit versetzen

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Frequency rank: #66,909 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "zufriedenstellen"?
"zufriedenstellen" is spelled Z-U-F-R-I-E-D-E-N-S-T-E-L-L-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [t͡suˈfʁiːdn̩ˌʃtɛlən].
What does "zufriedenstellen" mean?
As a verb, "zufriedenstellen" means: die Erwartungen von jemandem erfüllen und ihn damit in einen Zustand der Zufriedenheit versetzen
How do you pronounce "zufriedenstellen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "zufriedenstellen" is [t͡suˈfʁiːdn̩ˌʃtɛlən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.