acting
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The verdict
“acting” is uncommon German (frequency #74,266 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,266
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - stellvertretend
Corpus desk
Index DE-acting · acting · German
acting · rank #74,266 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,266
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH achtes
Nearest frequency peer: achtes (-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 „acting“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Achensee
Achensee
25,738 corpus weight
- achtes
achtes
25,736 corpus weight
- acting
acting
25,735 corpus weight
- Adeliger
Adeliger
25,734 corpus weight
- Adenauers
Adenauers
25,733 corpus weight
- afraid
afraid
25,732 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „acting“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acting |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,266 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „acting“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
acting is uncommon German at frequency #74,266 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "stellvertretend".
Zero misspellings are on record for acting in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is acting, spelled A-C-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1stellvertretend
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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