funktionieren
\fʊŋkt͡si̯oˈniːʁən\
The verdict
“funktionieren” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fonctionner, marcher, aller pour un objet, une installation, un spectacle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-funktionieren · funktionieren · French
funktionieren · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | funktionieren |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fʊŋkt͡si̯oˈniːʁən\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « funktionieren » en français
Rare enough to double-check
funktionieren is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fʊŋkt͡si̯oˈniːʁən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for funktionieren, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is funktionieren, spelled F-U-N-K-T-I-O-N-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1Fonctionner, marcher, aller pour un objet, une installation, un spectacle.
- 2Agir ou servir comme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how funktionieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Traktor ist kaputt und funktioniert nicht.
gut funktionieren.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.