zusichern
[ˈt͡suːˌzɪçɐn]
The verdict
“zusichern” is an uncommon German word, ranked #68,928 in German word frequency and used as a verb.
- #68,928
- frequency rank, German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - verbindlich versprechen (dem nachzukommen, was [vom Sprecher] beabsichtigt ist, [von jemandem] gefordert wird, …)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zusichern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈt͡suːˌzɪçɐn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,928 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “zusichern” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for zusichern is 9 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡suːˌzɪçɐn]. Corpus data places it at rank #68,928 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "verbindlich versprechen (dem nachzukommen, was [vom Sprecher] beabsichtigt ist, [von jemandem] gefordert wird, …)".
No generated misspelling entries exist for zusichern in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented 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 zusichern, spelled Z-U-S-I-C-H-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1verbindlich versprechen (dem nachzukommen, was [vom Sprecher] beabsichtigt ist, [von jemandem] gefordert 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 “zusichern”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is Z-U-S-I-C-H-E-R-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.