zusperren
[ˈt͡suːˌʃpɛʁən]
The verdict
“zusperren” is uncommon German (frequency #82,404 among 1,996 “Z” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,404
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Öffnen durch Unbefugte mit einem Verschließmechanismus blockieren
Corpus desk
Index DE-zusperren · zusperren · German
zusperren · rank #82,404 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,404
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH Zusammenkünft…
Nearest frequency peer: Zusammenkünften (-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 „zusperren“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- zurückkomme
zurückkomme
17,600 corpus weight
- zurückweist
zurückweist
17,599 corpus weight
- Zusammenkün…
Zusammenkünften
17,598 corpus weight
- zusperren
zusperren
17,597 corpus weight
- zuteilen
zuteilen
17,596 corpus weight
- zweidimensi…
zweidimensionale
17,595 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „zusperren“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zusperren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈt͡suːˌʃpɛʁən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „zusperren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
zusperren is uncommon German at frequency #82,404 among 1,996 “Z” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈt͡suːˌʃpɛʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
zusperren has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 zusperren, spelled Z-U-S-P-E-R-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1das Öffnen durch Unbefugte mit einem Verschließmechanismus blockieren
- 2einen Geschäftsbetrieb (für immer) beenden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how zusperren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Fröstelnd ging sie ins Haus zurück und wollte gerade die Tür zusperren, als sie plötzlich reglos verharrte.“
„Natürlich sperrt noch immer der Großteil der Eissalons im Winter zu.“
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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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