ziehen

/\t͡siːən\/ verb

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6 characters

Language

French

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ziehen is aFrenchverb. It means: Tirer, attirer par le bras, par l'habit, un cordon. Pronounced \t͡siːən\.

Key facts for ziehen
PropertyValue
Headwordziehen
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\t͡siːən\
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

ziehen is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for ziehen is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \t͡siːən\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 24 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ziehen in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 French form is ziehen, spelled Z-I-E-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tirer, attirer par le bras, par l'habit, un cordon.
  2. 2
    Tracer, tirer un trait.
  3. 3
    Tirer (des conclusions, des conséquences etc.)
  4. 4
    Retirer, prendre quelque chose d'un distributeur automatique.
  5. 5
    Entraîner, remorquer, tirer après soi.
  6. 6
    Sortir tirer une arme, dégainer.
  7. 7
    Cultiver une plante, engraisser un animal.
  8. 8
    Élever un mur, une construction ; creuser une tranchée.
  9. 9
    nach sich ziehen : entraîner, avoir des conséquences.
  10. 10
    Infuser.
  11. 11
    Mijoter un plat, faire cuire doucement à petit feu.
  12. 12
    Émettre, tirer au profit d'une tierce personne.
  13. 13
    frapper, battre quelqu'un ou quelque chose avec un objet.
  14. 14
    Étirer, allonger.
  15. 15
    Tirer sur quelque chose, aspirer.
  16. 16
    Tirer (le frein).
  17. 17
    Déménager, migrer.
  18. 18
    Se déplacer, bouger, migrer, passer.
  19. 19
    Errer, aller.
  20. 20
    Se répandre, en parlant de la fumée, des nuages.
  21. 21
    (sich ziehen) Traîner en longueur.
  22. 22
    S'étendre dans l'espace.
  23. 23
    Y avoir un courant d'air.
  24. 24
    Extraire, arracher (une dent).

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ziehen"?
"ziehen" is spelled Z-I-E-H-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is \t͡siːən\.
What does "ziehen" mean?
As a verb, "ziehen" means: Tirer, attirer par le bras, par l'habit, un cordon.
How do you pronounce "ziehen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ziehen" is \t͡siːən\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ziehen" come from?
"ziehen" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.