herunterlaufen
\hɛˈʁʊntɐˌlaʊ̯fn̩\
The verdict
“herunterlaufen” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Descendre à pied.
Corpus desk
Index FR-herunterlaufen · herunterlaufen · French
herunterlaufen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" 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 | herunterlaufen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \hɛˈʁʊntɐˌlaʊ̯fn̩\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
herunterlaufen is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \hɛˈʁʊntɐˌlaʊ̯fn̩\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Descendre à pied.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for herunterlaufen, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 herunterlaufen, spelled H-E-R-U-N-T-E-R-L-A-U-F-E-N.
Definition
- 1Descendre à pied.
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.